Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Stephenstown North, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stephenstown North
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17091, -6.69932
- SMR number
- KD024-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a NW-facing pasture slope just off the crest of a long, NE-SW ridge. A small circular slightly raised earthen area (diam. 25m), with a convex surface profile, is defined by a scarp (H 1m at NE; max H 1.5m at SW). No visible trace of a fosse or entrance.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 14 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.