Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Adamstown Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.