Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garnagale, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garnagale
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.68483, -7.53173
- SMR number
- KK012-050----
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
On a valley floor in flat grassland. There are quite good views in all directions. A roughly oval area (int. dims. 27m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.6m) and an external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.6m). The grassy interior is slightly dished (falling to D c. 0.3m at centre). There is an entrance (Wth 4.5m) with a causeway over the fosse in the W quadrant. There are trees and scrub growing around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.