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Ring-ditch

Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyragget
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.77743, -7.34031
SMR number
KK010-002002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Circular ring-ditch (max. diam. c. 20m) showing as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGG 85, 1971). Not visible at ground level. There are three other ring-ditches in the vicinity (KK010-002001-; KK010-002003-; KK010-002005-) c. 60m to the NE, c. 35m to the NW and c. 50m to the SW respectively.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 November 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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