Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Burtown Big, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burtown Big
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99024, -6.89401
- SMR number
- KD035-039----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
In tillage. Shown on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval area (est. max. c. 40m NNW-SE; c. 30m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a bank. While no visible surface trace survives, the faint cropmark of a fosse defining a curvilinear enclosure is visible on a 1989 aerial photograph (GB89.AI.07).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 23 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.