Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Upperwood Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Upperwood Demesne
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72867, -7.41655
- SMR number
- KK013-021----
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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
In an area of woodland and not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. A circular area (diam. c. 68-70m) bounded by wide, low earthen bank from N-E-S with traces of a shallow external fosse from NE-E-SE. The interior is overgrown with trees and scrub. The bank and fosse in the SW quadrant have been truncated by a public road which runs NW-SE where it meets the monument.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.