Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Borrismore, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Borrismore
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72939, -7.56288
- SMR number
- KK012-003----
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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 a slight hill in rolling landscape of small hillocks and hollows, under grass. To the W the land is fairly low-lying and flat. There are very fine views in all directions. A circular raised platform (int. diam. 38m) enclosed by a slight flat-topped earthen bank (Wth at crest 1m; overall Wth 4m; int. H 1.2-1.5m; ext. H 2m), wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.6m) and wide, flat-topped earthen outer bank (Wth at crest 2.5m; overall Wth 5.5m; ext. H 1.2m). There is an entrance in E (Wth 3m) with a break in both banks and a causeway across the fosse. The interior is level and featureless.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.