Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Dunmore West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70159, -7.27136
- SMR number
- KK014-143----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In tillage. A ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) identified as a cropmark on aerial photograph (GB94.FI.18, 13 August 1994), also visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 28 June 2018). There is a larger (diam. c. 35m) enclosure (KK014-059----), also identified as a cropmark, c. 20m to the NE.
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 28 June 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of revised upload: 19 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.