Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 52.70826, -7.42535
- SMR number
- KK013-047----
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 W side of the N-S portion of a valley predominantly orientated NE-SW. Land drops steeply E to the valley floor and initially rises gently to the W and then more steeply, in pasture. There are good views to the N, E and S and to the W is limited to the side of the valley. A roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 41m N-S; c. 37m E-W; overall diam. c. 55m N-S; c. 46m E-W) enclosed by a bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.7m; Wth at crest 2m; overall Wth 3m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.9m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.