Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Oldtown (knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (knocktopher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76883, -7.33958
- SMR number
- KK010-168----
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
Aerial photograph (GB89.P.43, 13 July 1989) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m); one of a pair of ring-ditches (KK010-167----, KK010-168----); this is the smaller of the two. Both ring-ditches are located in close proximity to a curved fosse indicating the corner a large rectilinear enclosure or field boundary (KK010-169----).
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of upload: 12 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.