Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clomantagh Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clomantagh Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72726, -7.48717
- SMR number
- KK013-001----
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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 brow of a SE-facing slope, with limited views due to rising ground. Clomantagh tower house (KK013-002001-) and bawn (KK013-002002-) are located c. 200m to the SSE. A raised circular area (int. dims. 37m N-S) enclosed by a denuded earth and stone bank (overall Wth c. 8m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.7m), a narrow fosse (Wth 2.5m) and low ext. bank (ext. H 0.5m). The inner bank is only visible from NNE-E, elsewhere the ringfort is defined by scarp. The fosse is infilled from SE-S-SW. There is a possible entrance to the N. A field boundary runs N-S up to inner bank of the monument in the NW and SW sectors.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.