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
- 52.76900, -7.61106
- SMR number
- KK008-069----
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
On the crest of a narrow ridge in rolling grassland. There are commanding views in all directions across lower lying lands. An ovoid platform (max. dims. 33m N-S; 20m E-W, H 2-3m; H c. 1m, except at W where H is 2-3m) with no visible trace of banks or an original entrance. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 320) refers to it as 'Raheennamuddach - There is a rath in Lough, called Raithín na mBodach, or little Rath of the Churls. A man named Bowe lives at it'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 October 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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.