Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyoskill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyoskill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83766, -7.32942
- SMR number
- KK005-001----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On brow of gentle SE-facing slope in pasture, marshland and stream to SE. A raised circular area (diam. 45.6m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (ext. H 1.65m, Wth 4m) and traces of a shallow external fosse (Wth 1.4m) are visible from S-W. The interior slopes gently from N-S. The bank, which is heavily overgrown with hawthorn and brambles, has been broken though at the NE and ESE. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) in the W sector.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.