Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connahy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75452, -7.32292
- SMR number
- KK010-053003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a N-S ridge on the Nore river valley floor, in rolling grassland. There are a number of other ring-ditches in the vicinity (KK010-053001-; KK010-053002-; KK010-054----; KK010-142----; KK010-152---- and KK010-187----). A circular ring-ditch (max. diam. c. 20m) showing as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGG051, 16 July 1971). The E quadrant of the enclosure is truncated by a field boundary running roughly NW-SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.