Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clomantagh Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clomantagh Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72306, -7.50046
- SMR number
- KK012-021----
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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 flat terrace between the plain to the S and the rise to Clomantagh hills to the N, in reclaimed grassland. There are good views to the S and fair elsewhere. This monument is heavily overgrown with dense scrub. It is depicted on the 25-inch OS map as a sub-circular area (diam. c. 31m N-S; c. 34m E-W) with fairly straight sides to SE and SW, enclosed by a bank (Wth at crest c. 2m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H c. 2m) and fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.5m). The 25-inch map shows an outer bank (overall diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 48m E-W) which has been either incorporated in or replaced by a field boundary running NE-SW along the NW sector.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.