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Castle - ringwork

Castletown (Galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - ringwork, Castletown, 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
Castletown (Galmoy By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.79225, -7.60004
SMR number
KK008-009----

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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 top of a hill with commanding views in all directions over rolling grassland and tillage. Situated in the angle of the townland, at the junction of three townlands. A church (KK008-010001-) and graveyard (KK008-010002-) lies c. 70m to the SSE. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 279) gives O'Curry's description of this monument as the 'Moat of Erke'. A roughly circular platform (max. diam. c. 30m; H 2-2.5m) enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse (Wth 4-8m; D 0.3-0.4m) at its base, best preserved in the N sector. Monument very heavily overgrown with bushes and nettles at time of inspection.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 27 September 2017

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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