Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bayswell, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bayswell
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78062, -7.61264
- SMR number
- KK008-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
At the end of a NW-SW ridge, land level from N-NE but falling away in all other directions, in good pasture. A circular area (int. diam. c. 23.5m) enclosed by low, wide earthen bank (Wth c. 3.1m; int. H c. 0.4-0.8; ext. H c. 0.8-1.1m), with slight traces of an external fosse in the E and S sectors.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.