Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Mooretown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooretown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14279, -6.95403
- SMR number
- KD027-006----
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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
On a very gentle NW-facing pasture slope. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a bank. Only a very slightly curving arc of bank (int. H 0.7m; Wth 2.6m; ext H 0.6m) at NE survives, and has been planted with a hedge and reused as a field boundary. A farmyard and paddock occupy the N limits.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.