Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grangerosnolvan Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangerosnolvan Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.96608, -6.88416
- SMR number
- KD037-002----
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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
Approximately circular platform (diam. c. 45m) with a wide, deep external fosse. Disturbed by quarrying at the N. Situated on a rise in pasture land. Described in 1955 as having a causeway at the SE (Danaher 1955, no. 297).
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
References
Danaher, P. 1955 A survey of the antiquities of county Kildare. Unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.