Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glenreagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenreagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.69788, -7.53522
- SMR number
- KK012-038----
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
On the N-facing slope of Graine hill, in rolling grassland. The interior and perimeter are quite overgrown with trees and scrub. A roughly circular area (int. dims. 30m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by low, earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (Wth 5m) which is best preserved in the S sector where it is re-cut to form a field boundary. There is an entrance (Wth 3.5m) at the SW with ramped causeway across the fosse. The interior slopes steeply to the N, following the natural topography.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.