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Ringfort - rath

Clomantagh Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clomantagh Upper, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clomantagh Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.72420, -7.50151
SMR number
KK012-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the base of a slope, falling gently to a terrace above the flood plain to S of Clomantagh hill, in pasture. There are good views to the N and S and fair to the E and W. An oval area (max. dims. 32m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a low wide earthen bank (Wth at crest c. 1m; overall Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.25m) and wide fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.5m). There are large amounts of stone in the bank composition. There is a steep ramp entrance (Wth 1.5m) at E, though this is likely to be modern. The interior is irregularly pitted, probably due to uprooting trees. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a field boundary is shown running E-W across the S sector of the ringfort. On the 1900 revision the field bank S of this field boundary is no longer depicted, it appears to have been levelled between 1839 and 1900.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 28 May 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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