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Ringfort - unclassified

Donaghmore (Fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Donaghmore, 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
Donaghmore (Fassadinin By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.77643, -7.32000
SMR number
KK010-006----

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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 a gravel ridge on a flat valley floor with good views in all directions. The 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map suggests that this was a bivallate enclosure, with the outer enclosing element being close and largely concentric with the inner enclosure to the E-S-WSW, and becoming wider from W-N-E, extending c. 20m N of the inner enclosure. The N half of this outer enclosure appears to have been incorporated in the field boundaries. The inner enclosure, appears to have been a roughly circular platform (max. diam. c. 42-47m; H 1.8m) with traces of a slight earthen bank and remains of an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.8m) at E. By 1987 the W half of the inner enclosure had been destroyed by quarrying and the S sector had been damaged by a roadway.

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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