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Ring-ditch

Clintstown (Crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Clintstown, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clintstown (Crannagh By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73213, -7.38475
SMR number
KK013-027002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the Nuenna river valley well above the flood plain of river which flows c. 260m to S, in flat reclaimed grassland. An enclosure (KK013-027001-) is located c. 70m to the NNW and another (KK013-027003-) c. 60m to the S. A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) showing as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG087, 16 July 1971). It is not visible at ground level.

See attached photograph:
KK013-027002-_01 CUCAP BGG087, 16 July 1971

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 July 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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