Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Whiteswall, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiteswall
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.81464, -7.57043
- SMR number
- KK003-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
At top of a small hill on the valley floor with very good views in all directions. A circular raised area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H c. 0.2m; ext. H c. 1.4m). A field boundary runs E-W along the N edge of the monument. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.