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Ringfort - rath

Tinnalintan, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tinnalintan, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tinnalintan
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.80913, -7.32430
SMR number
KK005-015----

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David 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the brow of a gentle W-facing slope with a good view SW-W-NW, otherwise limited by rising ground. A sub-circular area (int. diam. 31m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.8m; overall Wth 6m; NW quadrant int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth 3m), fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank (int. H 1.45m), the latter is only apparent where the fosse survives. The inner bank survives from NW-E-SSW and is best-preserved from E-S-SSW. In the NW quadrant the bank is quite denuded and from SSW-W the bank has been broken through where a modern drainage channel running E-W cuts into the monument. The fosse survives from NNE-S-SSW and has been infilled elsewhere. At N a later field bank occupies the line of the fosse, skirting the external face of the inner bank. The interior, which slopes from SE-NW, is heavily overgrown with hawthorn, beech and brambles. Outside the bank, at the NW sector, there is a spring well from which a stream flows downslope due W.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 April 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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