Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rathkyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkyle
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.79589, -7.27224
- SMR number
- KK005-026----
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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
On brow of a SE-facing slope in an area of marshy ground. There are good views from SE-S-WNW, elsewhere the views are limited by a rise in ground level. A circular, raised, marshy area (int. diam. 36.4m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m; Wth including slip 5.4m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; D below field level at N 1.20m). There is a clearly defined causewayed entrance (dims. 7m x 3.45m) in the NE quadrant. The bank is best preserved from SSW-N-E and is quite denuded elsewhere. The fosse is very pronounced from SSW-N-E but it is shallow and overgrown with vegetation from E-SSW. A counterscarp bank follows line of the fosse from SW-N-NE only. The interior is marshy and the NW sector is heavily overgrown with briars and bushes.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.