Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gragara, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragara
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.73966, -7.27729
- SMR number
- KK010-077----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the flat floor of the Dinin river valley floor, in mixed grass and tillage. There are good views in all directions across the valley. A much disturbed roughly oval area (int. dims. on 25-inch OS map c. 43m N-S; c. 36m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m) and fosse (Wth 2-3m; D 0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5-2m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 4m) in the SE quadrant. There has been some dumping in the interior.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.