Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fontstown Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fontstown Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04837, -6.89326
- SMR number
- KD031-018----
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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 moderately steep SW-facing pasture slope. The E-half of an originally circular area (diam. 32m N-S) is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; Wth 4.6m; ext H 1.2m) N-E-SSE, with traces of a shallow outer fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3m) surviving at NE and SE. The monument is truncated NE-SW by a road and by a broad driveway at S. The interior is lawned and hedged.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 08 October 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.