Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacar, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacar
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.76429, -7.26089
- SMR number
- KK010-040----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On gently sloping rolling grassland, on the floor of the Gloshia river valley, c. 350 W of the river. There are good views to the N and S along the valley and E across the valley, and fair to W across gently rising land. A roughly circular area (max. dims. 28m E-W, 24m N-S) enclosed by slight earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H c. 0.7m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m). There are two entrances, one at E (Wth 3m) and one at W (Wth 3m), one probably originally and the other a cattle gap. The interior, which is cattle poached, slopes to the W, following the natural fall in slope.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 December 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.