Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Gortnagap, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnagap
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65172, -7.49772
- SMR number
- KK017-015----
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 pasture. A circular ring-ditch (int. diam. c. 8m; overall diam. c. 13m), defined by a cropmark, is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 16 April 2015), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.
See attached:
KK017-015----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 16 April 2015)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.