Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Seskin (Galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seskin (Galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.81719, -7.38378
- SMR number
- KK004-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a steep W-facing slope, in a small N-S stream valley a little below crest of hill, in rolling grassland. Badly mutilated remains of a circular flat area (max. dims. 24m N-S; 20m E-W) bounded by a broad earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H c. 0.4-.5m; ext. H c. 0.7-0.8m). The E half of the monument has been destroyed by a modern trackway.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.