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Ringfort - rath

Kilmeage, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilmeage, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmeage
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.25044, -6.83497
SMR number
KD018-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Described in 1972 as a roughly oval-shaped rath (diams. 59m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an inner bank of earth and stone, which was hedged as a field boundary and gapped at W and S, and by an outer fosse. By 1986, the monument had been reduced to a low rise (H 0.6m) surrounded by a cropmark of thistles (SMR file). On a gentle S-facing pasture slope. The monument is still visible as a very slightly raised, oval area but later field boundaries, shown on the 1st (1838) and latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch map radiating off the monument at NNW, NE, S and WNW, have been extended to join up in the interior of the site.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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