Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Russellstown (athy Rural Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Russellstown (athy Rural Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01015, -6.93545
- SMR number
- KD035-020001-
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 low pasture rise. Aerial photograph (CUCAP BOC 64 (1973)) shows the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 40m), probably a ringfort site, together with the cropmark a of a larger rectangular enclosure (est. c. 70m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE), probably a field, overlying the circular enclosure. No visible surface traces survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 28 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.