Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Jenkinstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jenkinstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72257, -7.29026
- SMR number
- KK014-151----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
A ring-ditch (diam. 10m), in tillage, visible on Google Earth (imagery date: 28 June 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling and Jean-Charles Caillère. There are a cluster of ring-ditches (KK014-006001- to KK014-006007-) c. 350m to the SW and a large levelled enclosure (KK014-010001-) c. 200m to the SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.