Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyragget
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78534, -7.33012
- SMR number
- KK010-176----
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
In tillage. An aerial photograph (GB90.CE.29, 14 July 1989) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m); the most northerly of three ring-ditches (KK010-176----, KK010-177----, KK010-178----) c. 60-70m apart, aligned N-S. There is another ring-ditch (KK010-172----) c. 40m to the NW.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 28 January 2019
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.