Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Greatrath, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatrath
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilrush Rath
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilrush Rath
- Coordinates
- 53.05951, -6.84211
- SMR number
- KD032-018----
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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
Off the summit of a hill on a gentle N-facing slope. When inspected in 1972 (SMR file) it was a large roughly circular area (diam. 125m) enclosed by an irregular earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 1.2m; ext H 0.6m) with traces of an outer fosse visible at E. A large depression, interpreted as being the result of quarrying, was noted in the SW sector, and there was a second, smaller depression near the enclosing bank at N. The monument was subsequently levelled and no visible surface trace survived in 1987 (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.