Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grangeclare East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangeclare East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25441, -6.82990
- SMR number
- KD018-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the SE end of pasture ridge with a steep fall immediately outside the monument E-S. Described in 1986 as a small, raised, roughly circular area (diam 36m) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) and a very broad, V-shaped, outer fosse (Wth 10m) with an entrance on the W side (SMR file). Visible on a 2005 aerial photo (OSi Orthophoto).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.