Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathealy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathealy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.68898, -7.44671
- SMR number
- KK013-073----
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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 floor of a small N-S river valley, with the stream running NW-SE past the NE quadrant, in waterlogged pasture. There are fair-good views within the valley. A circular area (int. diam. 30m) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.5m; Wth 2.5m), external fosse (Wth 2m; D 1m) and outer bank (ext. H 0.5m; Wth 5m). There are entrances through both banks at E (inner bank gap Wth 3m; outer bank Wth 2m)and NW (inner bank gap Wth 1m; outer bank Wth 3m). There is a slightly raised rectangular platform (dims. 10m N-S; 7m E-W) in the E quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.