Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathsillagh Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathsillagh Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04996, -6.87496
- SMR number
- KD031-016----
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 top of a long gentle E-facing pasture slope. A raised circular area (diam. 40m; H 1m) is defined by a low overgrown scarp SSE-W-NE and by a later field bank - possibly incorporating an earlier enclosing bank - NE-E-SSE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 07 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.