Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Dunmore Park, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore Park
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70416, -7.25599
- SMR number
- KK014-116----
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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 a slight rise on top of a broad flat ridge between valleys running N-S, in tillage. There are excellent views in all directions. Forms S rise of slight saddle-back with 14-39 on N rise. Very stoney fields. According to the OS Letters (1839), 'two ancient Raths in the Deer Park are the only antiquities that have been discovered in this parish' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 39 (13)). Only one enclosure (KK014-039----) is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. However, another monument, described as an 'earthen mound with no stone' and known locally as the 'little rath' was identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987 and is probably the 'rath' referred to in the OS Letters. This was located within a small tree plantation (dims. c. 70m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) within the deer park of Dunmore Park demesne. Both it and the plantation had been levelled by 1987.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 June 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.