Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shankill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.69606, -7.01915
- SMR number
- KK016-004----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In wet marshy terrain on a valley floor, in pasture. There are fair-good views in all directions. A large oval enclosure (dims. 32m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE 41m) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m; Wth at crest 3m; overall Wth 4m) and fosse (Wth 3m; D c. 1m) which is dry in the SW-W sector but elsewhere it is fed by spring well which rises in the NW and flows N-E-S, running westward from the SW. The interior is flat. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) in the NE sector with a steep ramp over the fosse. The utilisation of a spring to create a moat may suggest that this is not a ringfort.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 November 1987
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.