Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Alliganstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alliganstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.09590, -6.64411
- SMR number
- KD029-031----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At the W-foot of a long moderately steep slope in wet rushy pasture, with a small stream flowing E immediately to the S of the monument. A fairly poorly preserved oval area (int. diams. 23m N-S; 18m E-W; ext diams. 50m N-S; 42m E-W) is defined by a low inner earthen bank (int. H 0.2-0.8m; Wth across top 0.9-1.5m; ext H 2-2.9m), and by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.1m: D 0.8m) and a second, outer bank (int H 0.8m; Wth across top 1.8m; ext H 1.6m) ENE-SE. From SE-W-N-ENE the outer bank has been levelled into the fosse. The original entrance lies at ESE with corresponding gaps in the inner (Wth 1.3m) and outer (Wth 2.7m) banks and a causeway (Wth 4.2m; L 6.1m) across the intervening fosse. Internally, the N-half of the monument is slightly higher (H 0.6m) than the S-half.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.