Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rathealy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathealy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.69466, -7.43952
- SMR number
- KK013-058----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 crest of a ridge between two valleys running NW-SE, in reclaimed grassland. There are very fine views in all directions. A flat, circular platform (max. diam. 22m) enclosed by waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.5m) and external undulating earthen bank (int. H c. 1.75m; ext. H c. 1m; Wth 5m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) in the S quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.