Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moone, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moone
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.96618, -6.83514
- SMR number
- KD038-004----
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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 the 1835 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure and on 1908 edition as a sub-rectangular enclosure (max diam. c. 25m). Situated on a natural oval glacial hillock. Described in 1955 as a platform defined by a low bank and shallow fosse, with a slight berm and external fosse (overall diam. c. 50m) (Danaher 1955, no. 338). No visible surface trace.
Date of upload: 15 September 2016
References
Danaher, P. 1955 A survey of the antiquities of county Kildare. Unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.