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Ringfort - unclassified

Adamstown Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Adamstown Lower, 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
Adamstown Lower
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.70507, -7.43236
SMR number
KK013-045----

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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)
  • 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 the S side of a valley, on gently sloping land just below the crest of slope, in reclaimed grassland. There are very good views except to the S where the land is rising. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1900 revision. On the 25-inch OS map it is indicated as a large circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 56m). Though levelled, the monument (inner enclosure diam. c. 38m) is visible on ASI aerial photographs (ASIAP (230) 7-10, 14 March 2001; ASIAP (413) 34-6, 18 October 2003) and on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 18 March 2020) with an inner and outer fosse, c. 10m apart.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 March 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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