What is recorded here

Rosetown Rath is a steep oval scar cut into the Kildare riverbank, its nine-metre fosse dropping beside the Liffey like a hidden throat. Cattle still graze above the buried entry, while trees strangle the eastern edge where the ancient bank disappears. The fort does not ask to be seen; it waits for someone to stumble into its dark, sloping chamber and remember that the river took half its shape before people stopped fearing what lived below the water.

On the E edge of a very steep drop to the River Liffey which flows N c. 70m to the W. Heavily overgrown with trees, in pasture. An oval area (54m N-S; 42m E-W), constructed by scarping and modifying the river bank to form an inner and outer earthen bank with a deep intervening fosse SSE-W-N (max D. of fosse below inner bank 9m at W; 2m at S). The interior slopes gently from E to W. The monument is truncated on the E side where a modern field boundary runs N-S, and the original enclosing elements are not visible from N-E-SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 May 2012

Rosetown Rath is an early-medieval ringfort located on the eastern edge of a steep river bank overlooking the River Liffey. It is associated with local folklore of fairy hauntings, common to many such sites in Ireland.

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