Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tubbrid Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tubbrid Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.71307, -7.48889
- SMR number
- KK012-034----
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 raised circular area (int. diam. c. 45-50m; overall diam. c. 70m) enclosed by a wide earthen bank; a wide fosse and a low, wide, earthen outer bank c. 5-7m from the raised interior. There is a causewayed entrance across the fosse in the SE sector. The monument is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.