Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dalkinstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalkinstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.07795, -6.77826
- SMR number
- KD032-007----
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
On an E-facing pasture slope. A roughly circular area (diam. 44.2m), which rises slightly towards the centre, is defined by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.2-0.4m; Wth 1m; ext. H 1m), reused as a later field boundary SSW-W-NNW. No visible trace of a fosse or entrance survives. Visible on a 2010 OSi Orthophoto.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 14 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.