Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ladytown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ladytown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20292, -6.71810
- SMR number
- KD019-035----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On level pasture, and now immediately E of the M7 motorway. Described in 1979 as a circular area (int. diam. 35m) enclosed by an overgrown but well-defined earthen bank (int. H 1m; W 6m) and water-filled, outer fosse (Wth 4m), with an entrance gap (Wth 5m) and corresponding causeway (Wth 3m) at SE (SMR file). The site is a Registered Historic Monument and is visible on a 2005 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.