Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Grangefertagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangefertagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78232, -7.54208
- SMR number
- KK008-050----
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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 a flat low-lying valley floor but above the flood plain, in rolling grassland. On a very slight eminence giving good views all round, though land does rise slightly to N. There are bogs to the N and W. A circular area (int. dim. 28.5m) enclosed by low stoney bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H c. 0.4m - rising to 0.95m in E quadrant; ext. H c. 0.8m). The entrance (Wth c. 2.4m) is in the S quadrant. There is a large hollow in the E half of the interior and smaller hollows in the NW and SW sectors.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.