Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sandfordscourt, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sandfordscourt
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.68098, -7.19173
- SMR number
- KK015-022----
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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 brow of N end of small but steep-sided hill, overlooking rolling grassland in all directions. The view is good in all directions. Described by Doyle (1981) as being, 'built so that on three sides the ground falls away from the embankment of the rath. The entrance to the rath is on the south-east. It is thirty yards [c. 27m] from the entrance to the opposite side, and about twenty-eight yards [c. 25.6m] on the cross'. The monument had been levelled by 1987 with no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.