Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derreens, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreens
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23106, -6.74955
- SMR number
- KD018-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in well-drained pasture. Described in 1986 as a very overgrown but fairly well-preserved, small, raised, circular area (int. diam. 25m) defined by a scarp (H 1.5-2m) and an outer fosse (Wth 2m) which had been recut as a field drain, and widened W-N into a livestock watering hole. The interior was heavily poached by livestock taking shelter on the monument and an enclosing bank, first noted in 1955, was no longer visible (SMR file). Visible as being densely overgrown 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
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.