Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Battlemount, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Battlemount
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02930, -6.86056
- SMR number
- KD032-039----
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 a now extensively quarried away glacial hillock, in tillage. Shown on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch map as raised circular area (est. max diam. c. 65m). In 1972, a bank and fosse were noted on the E side, but the S, W and N portions of the monument were found to have been destroyed by quarrying (SMR file). A heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; Wth 3.6m; ext H 1.6m) survives NE-E-SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 31 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.