Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Foulkscourt, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foulkscourt
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.75911, -7.55274
- SMR number
- KK008-092----
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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 top of a low flat-topped ridge with ground sloping gently to NE, in gently undulating terrain, in pasture. There are good to extensive views in all directions, with the round tower of Grangefertagh being visible 2.2km to the NNE. Another enclosure (KK008-091----) is located c. 125m to the NNW. The bank and interior of this monument is heavily overgrown. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. from 25-inch OS map c. 39m) defined by a bank (Wth at crest 1.5m; overall Wth 5m; int. H 0.95-1.05m; ext. H c. 2m). A field boundary runs roughly NE-SW along the bank from S-W-NW, possibly augmenting the existing bank. In the N quadrant, from NW-N-ENE the external slip of the bank (Wth c. 4m) has been scooped up and redeposited on top of the bank in this sector, augmenting the height of the existing bank by c. 1.3m. There may have been an entrance in this N sector as a gap at the top of the bank existed before the soil was redeposited. In c. 2000 two sheds were constructed along the exterior edge of the monument in the E and SE, with the external ground level being excavated to a depth of c. 2m below the original ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.