Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kilranelagh, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilranelagh
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI027-073----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Included in the SMR (1986) as an unlocated ringfort. Price (1949, 121) notes that an older name for Kilranelagh House was ‘Downings’, and that as this was derived from a fort or ‘dún’ there may have been a ringfort in this area.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 December 2012
References
Price, L. 1949 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. III - The barony of Talbotstown Upper. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (107-84).
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