Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ruthstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ruthstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72359, -7.23468
- SMR number
- KK014-019----
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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 S end of a flat-topped ridge running N-S between valleys, in rolling pasture. There are very fine views in all directions. It is not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map . Indicated on first edition OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1839) and is indicated on the 1946-7 revision as a pit, though a bank is indicated in the NE and SE quadrants. The possible enclosure was not visible at ground level when visited in 1987, the landowner at the time thought it had been a sand pit.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.