Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullaghreelan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghreelan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.93563, -6.86344
- SMR number
- KD038-036----
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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 1909 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (max diam. c. 50m), with second external bank at N-E-S. Extensively damaged by sand digging, but described in 1955 as consisting of a low, wide, denuded bank and shallow fosse (Danaher 1955, no. 307). Some dark earth and pieces of bone visible in pit face. Situated on slope in tillage area.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin.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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 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.