Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Frankford Or Ballykieran, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frankford Or Ballykieran
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.75478, -7.49455
- SMR number
- KK008-106----
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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)
- 1868 · 4. 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
At the W end of an E-W ridge and partly formed by scarping of that ridge, in rolling grassland, with small patches of bog to N and W. Ringfort consists of a roughly circular area (diam. 37m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by a slight bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.2m) in the S quadrant and by a scarped edge (H 1.2m) elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 1.7m; D 0.3m) is visible from SE-S-SW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.