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Ringfort - rath

Blackrath, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Blackrath, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Blackrath
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Black Rath
Latest-edition OS map
Black Rath
Coordinates
53.04922, -6.77912
SMR number
KD032-032----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Mid way along a short gentle SW-facing pasture slope. A fairly poorly preserved, heavily poached, circular area (int. diams. 221.m E-W; 21.7m N-S) is defined by a very broad but denuded earthen bank (Wth 8-10m; int. H 0.6-1.1m; ext H over base of outer fosse 1.2m at W-2.3m at N), a fosse (base Wth 2.8m at W-4.2m at E), SE-W-N-E, and by a second, outer bank (Wth 3.2m at S-5.7m at N; ext H 0.3m), SE-W-N-ENE. A gap (Wth 3m) in the inner bank at ENE is probably the original entrance, but there is no visible trace of a corresponding causeway in the heavily poached fosse outside. The interior is covered in strong nettle and thistle growth.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 29 October 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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