Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barnhill West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnhill West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.89140, -6.85241
- SMR number
- KD040-021----
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Shown on 4 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
Prominently sited near the S end of a low plateau in tillage overlooking the Barrow valley to the SW. A circular area (diam. 36m) is defined by a low earthen bank but with no obvious trace of a fosse (although traces of a fosse were visible in 1955 (Danaher 1955, no. 674)).
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin.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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.