Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygowney
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.77672, -7.46319
- SMR number
- KK009-018----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a fairly steep W-facing slope on the side of a valley. A circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by low earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.6m). The fosse is less evident in the S and W sectors. The bank and fosse have been damaged by a field boundary running NW-SE along the perimeter in the E quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.