Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ruthstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ruthstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.73038, -7.23314
- SMR number
- KK014-018----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a N-S ridge of high land between two river valleys, in rolling pasture. There are excellent views in all directions. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1946-7 revision as a sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 53m N-S and E-W). A farm trackway runs along the N edge and the E bank is indicated as incorporated in a field boundary which still survives. The enclosure was levelled in 1965 and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 May 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.