Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmuck, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmuck
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.13083, -6.95118
- SMR number
- KD027-008----
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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
Near the foot of a gentle N-facing pasture slope. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a square enclosure (est. ext. L c. 50m; Wth c. 50m). Described in 1972 (SMR file) as a densely overgrown L-shaped earthwork consisting of an inner bank, a wide deep fosse and a second, outer bank. The remains of the monument, possibly a moated site, were subsequently levelled, but an L-shaped vegetation line of lush grass (c. 25m E-W; c. 12m N-S), probably indicating the line of an-infilled fosse, was visible at ground level in 1986 (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.