Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kilkea Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkea Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.93060, -6.88210
- SMR number
- KD037-039----
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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
Shown on OS 1909 6' sheet as an approximately triangular remnant of an enclosure (dims. c. 40 x 30 x 40), with hachures indicating a fosse at the NE side. No visible surface trace. Probably a ringfort site.
Date of upload: 15 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.