Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kennycourt, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kennycourt
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10190, -6.68208
- SMR number
- KD029-027----
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
At the NE end of a low NE-SW pasture ridge. A poorly preserved roughly circular area (diam. 37m E-W) is defined by a low overgrown, earthen bank (int H 0.3-0.6m; Wth 1.5m; ext H 1.2m) and shallow outer fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.3-0.5m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.