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Ringfort - rath

Kilbaylet Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilbaylet Lower, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilbaylet Lower
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.03233, -6.60779
SMR number
WI015-065----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the SW end of a slight ridge with gentle slopes to the W and a marked drop to the marshy floor of Dolls Brook to the E and S. Oval area (dims. 35m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-4m; int. H 1m) set on the perimeter of a slight platform (H c. 1m), and an external fosse (Wth 2.5-3.5m; D 0.5m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 1m) at the N with a shallow internal fosse (Wth 2m) inside it cutting off a small portion of the interior. Several large hollows also occur in the interior. A subrectangular annexe (dims. 14.5m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) is attached on the SW. This is defined at the E by the continuation of the ringfort bank and fosse; these features have been removed elsewhere by an adjacent road. The ringfort and annexe are separated by the ungapped ringfort bank. A gap (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at the SE side of the annexe, immediately S of the junction with the ringfort, may be the entrance. Another ringfort (WI015-066----) lies 30m to the NE.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 126/1940).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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