Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killahy (crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killahy (crannagh By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.68606, -7.46648
- SMR number
- KK013-070----
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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 SW side of a small valley running NW-SE, at the point where the valley floor meets the gently rising valley sides, in reclaimed grassland. Views are limited to valley. A roughly circular area (int. dims. 47m N-S; 52m E-W), raised above the external field level (H c. 1m) and enclosed by a flat-topped bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m; Wth at crest 2m; overall Wth 3m) and an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 1.2m), which is only visible in the W sector as it is infilled elsewhere. The bank is best preserved in the W quadrant, with only a slight remnant in the N sector and it does not survive in the E and S quadrants. There is an entrance in the E quadrant which may be the original and if so it has been modified in recent times but creating a earthen access ramp.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.