Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lough, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.76071, -7.61309
- SMR number
- KK008-068----
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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
On the W side of the S end of slight N-S ridge, with land dropping steeply to E, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. A semi-circular area (int. dims. 26m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.1-0.6m; ext. H c. 2.4m) from N-W-S, external terrace forming fosse (Wth 2.5-4m; D 1-1.5m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5-2m; ext. H 1-1.5m). The E bank of the monument is levelled, possibly quarried as indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. Four field boundaries run up to the monument, from all cardinal points.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 October 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.