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Ringfort - unclassified

Rathkyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Rathkyle, 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
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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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 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

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

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