Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glashare, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glashare
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78437, -7.51877
- SMR number
- KK008-023----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a steep-sided hillock above the floor of the Goul river valley, in rolling grassland, with good views across the valley. A circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) enclosed by a wide earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 1.5m), fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.8m) and outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 1m). There is an entrance (Wth at inner bank 5m; Wth at outer bank 2.5m) with ramp at NE. The interior is irregular and slopes slightly to the E. The SE quadrant is quite denuded.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.