Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathsillagh Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathsillagh Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05882, -6.87318
- SMR number
- KD032-017001-
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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
Near the top of a long moderately steep E-facing pasture slope. Visible on 1971 aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 25, BGN 19) as the cropmarks of two parallel fosses enclosing a large oval enclosure (est max diam. c. 80m NW-SE), with the cropmarks of two other parallel fosses to the E, possibly forming part of an associated field system (KD032-017002-). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.