Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Parksgrove, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parksgrove
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.79073, -7.34733
- SMR number
- KK009-014----
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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 land rising slightly to the E, on a low gravel ridge of a valley floor, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. A roughly oval area (diam. 48m E-W, 39m N-S) enclosed by a low, wide bank (Wth 2m). From NW-N-NE there are slight traces of an internal bank (Wth 2m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 1.4-2m) with intervening fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.8m). It is possible that the internal bank and intervening fosse have been levelled in the southern half of the monument, leaving only the outer bank as the visible enclosing element. Entrance (Wth 5-6m) at E, probably widened. The interior is level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.