Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Tullowbrin, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullowbrin
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72415, -7.17485
- SMR number
- KK015-002----
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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
Set in a slight hollow on an undulating terrace in reclaimed grassland. Good visibility to the E. A substantially intact cashel (int. diam. 16m; overall diam. 29m; wall T 6.5m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.7-2m). The outer face has been robbed (collapsed) leaving a sloping pile of stone rubble. Entrance at E (Wth 0.55m) faced with carefully coursed slabs. A pair of small corbels project from the entrance passageway 0.6m from the interior at a height of 0.2-0.3m. These may have held some sort of barrier. A possible cashel (KK015-002001-) is conjoined to the NE. Known locally as Butler's Folly and said to have been built by James Butler in earlier 19th century. Not evident on the OS 6-inch 1st ed. maps.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.