Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pollardstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollardstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17866, -6.83536
- SMR number
- KD023-007----
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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, the latest ed. (1939) shows a small raised, circular area (est. diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp from W-N-E, and elsewhere by a slightly curved field boundary, located on the N edge of a very large quarry from which the Great Northern and Western Railway Co. extracted gravel for use as ballast on their rail lines. Appears to have been quarried away.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 23 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.