Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmiles, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmiles
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmiles
- Coordinates
- 53.13030, -7.15702
- SMR number
- LA005-016----
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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
Large subcircular ringfort (diam. c. 61m N-S), situated on level ground above valley, defined by a single bank (max. base Wth c. 2.6m, int. H c. 2.5m, ext. H c. 2.75m) except at N where it is represented by a field fence. The fosse (base Wth c. 2m, max. Wth c. 5.5m) is visible from N-Sw. Possible entrances at NE and SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.