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Ringfort - rath

Dunbyrne, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dunbyrne, 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
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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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

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

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

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