Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunbyrne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbyrne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22822, -6.84892
- SMR number
- KD018-013----
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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
Near the bottom of a long, gentle, S-facing pasture slope overlooking a large tract of bog to the SE. A fairly poorly preserved, large, roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 90m) is defined by a very substantial inner earthen bank (Wth 8m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 3.8m) SE-SW-NW, the broad upper surface of which (Wth 4m) is heavily poached by livestock, and which has been reduced to a scarp at SE (H 1.8m), and by a wide, flat-bottomed outer fosse (Wth3.7m; D 1.8m) SE-NW through which a stream flows to feed a modern pond which has been dug out of the fosse at S. A gap (Wth 10m) in the bank at WSW appears to be modern. The enclosing elements are removed along the N where extensive farm buildings shown on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, have since been levelled, while the E limits of the site are defined by a low, modern earthen bank (Wth 1.1; H 0.6m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical 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.