Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grangebeg (gilltown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangebeg (gilltown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08230, -6.68402
- SMR number
- KD033-002----
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 S-facing pasture slope immediately N of a narrow ravine, with the surrounding ground quarried away at NW and S. A raised (av. H 1.2m) kidney-shaped area (50m N-S; 40m E-S) is defined by a scarp. Visible on an OSi Orthophoto (2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 25 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.