Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Craddockstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craddockstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.69881, -7.50260
- SMR number
- KK012-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A little below the crest of a bluff between two valleys, in tillage and grassland. There are good views in all directions. A circular raised platform (diam. c. 48m N-S; c. 51m E-W) defined by scarp (H 2.8m) and a flat-bottomed, steep-sided external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.8m), which is largely infilled at E. The raised nature of this monument suggests it may be a ringwork rather than a ringfort.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.