Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nurney, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nurney
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.75642, -6.89929
- SMR number
- CW012-050----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Shown on 1938-9 'OS 6-inch' map as bivallate ringfort (max. diam. c. 70m) and visible as such on aerial photograph (GSI S 436). Now levelled except for portions of external bank from S-W-NW incorporated in field fence. Also visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018).
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.