Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 53.05865, -6.87235
- SMR number
- KD032-017002-
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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
Near the top of a long moderately steep E-facing pasture slope. Immediately E of a possible enclosure (KD032-017001-) Visible on 1971 aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 25, BGN 19) as the cropmarks of two parallel fosses, possibly forming part of an associated field system. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.