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Ringfort - unclassified

Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, 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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.78856, -7.32417
SMR number
KK010-003----

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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

On the floor of a flat valley with good views in all directions, in tillage. A roughly circular raised platform (overall dims. 20m N-S; 19m E-W) enclosed by traces of a slight earthen bank (overall Wth 2m; Wth at crest 1-1.5m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) and possible external fosse showing only as rough vegetation. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map there appears to be a lime kiln in the interior in the S quadrant. There is a ramped entrance (Wth 4m) at S which, if original, was probably modified to provided access to the kiln. The 25-inch OS map depicts an outer enclosure (overall dims. 47m N-S; 58m E-W) defined by scarp, c. 2-8m beyond the inner enclosure, being widest in the NW (13m) and W (c. 9m) sectors. This survived as a raised berm (Wth 5-6m; H 0.2-0.3m) in the N sector when inspected in 1987. Aerial photographs (ASIAP (19) 12, 14) taken in 1995 shown this outer enclosure as a cropmark.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 7 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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