Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Oldtown (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (fassadinin By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77425, -7.33477
- SMR number
- KK010-195----
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
A small circular cropmark (diam. 9m) identified by Simon Dowling on Google Earth Pro (Image © 2018 Digital Globe, imagery date 28 June 2018). A field boundary, also visible as a cropmark, runs roughly E-W through the ring-ditch. There is a possible enclosure (KK010-194----) c. 170m to the S and a large irregular enclosure (KK010-027----) c. 270m to the SW.
See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 October 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 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.