Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garranamanagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranamanagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.74976, -7.45238
- SMR number
- KK009-034----
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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 a terrace on a hillslope, in rolling grassland with good views. A roughly circular area (int. dims. 26m E-W, 25m N-S) enclosed by a wide rocky bank (Wth at crest 2m; overall Wth c. 4m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 1.4m) and external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.4m) from W-SW-S. The fosse is filled in in the N and E sectors. There are traces of an outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) at S, though this is probably modern. The 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map shows a quarry (diam. c. 27m) adjacent to the SW sector. There is an entrance (Wth c. 1m) and causeway (Wth 6m) across the fosse at W.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.