Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Forekill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forekill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.70083, -7.52277
- SMR number
- KK012-041----
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 a broad flat-topped ridge in grassland. There are good views in all directions. A circular area (int. diam. 31m) enclosed by flat-topped gravel-rich earthen bank (Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at the SE. Trees and scrub growing on the monument. There is a slight field boundary running around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.