Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coltstown (graney Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coltstown (graney Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.89514, -6.81123
- SMR number
- KD040-024----
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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
Shown on the 1907 OS 6-inch map as a circular area defined by a bank. Traces of a bank are visible indicating a circular area (diam. c. 40m). Described in 1955 as a platform ringfort with a shallow enclosing fosse (Danaher 1955, no. 282).
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.