Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connahy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.75768, -7.32061
- SMR number
- KK010-052----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 land rising just above the flood plain of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views across the valley. The monument is heavily overgrown with dense scrub. A roughly circular raised area (int. diam. on 25-inch OS map c. 60m N-S; c. 62m E-W) enclosed by a wide, high earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m) and wide external fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.8m). A field system (KK010-149----) immediately to the SE may be associated and there is a small enclosure (KK010-150----) c. 40m to the SW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.