Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Radestown South, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Radestown South
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.68701, -7.23917
- SMR number
- KK014-067----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the top of a hill with land dropping steeply on all sides, in pasture. There are very good views in all directions. A circular raised area (diam c. 18m) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.2m; Wth 1.5m), wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 1.2m) and external flat-topped bank (ext. H 0.8m; basal Wth c. 4m). There is an original entrance and causeway (Wth 3m) at SSW. The interior, which is relatively free of vegetation, has a pronounced slope to the S, dropping by c. 1.4m. The fosse and outer bank in the S sector was levelled when the adjacent water treatment plant was built.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 June 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.