Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Rathkyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkyle
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79813, -7.25968
- SMR number
- KK005-028----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the S downslope of a hill, overlooking a marshy area to the SE, with higher ground to the N, NE and W. There are good views from S-WNW, elsewhere obscured by a rise in ground level. A small circular area (int. diam. 24.5m E-W) sloping from N-S, enclosed by a well-preserved earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m; Wth 2.5m) with traces of a shallow fosse from NNW-N-NE. There is no entrance. The stumps of about 6 mature trees are visible in the interior and on the adjoining bank. Its close proximity to a D-shaped copse of mature deciduous trees to SE gives further credence to this being a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.