Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Trenchardstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trenchardstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.67542, -7.45429
- SMR number
- KK018-005----
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
Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map where a small woodland plantation is depicted. By the 1900 revision the woodland is gone and the monument has been revealed. It consists of a roughly circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 34m) with a fosse and outer bank indicated in the NE-E-SE sector. A stream runs NW-SE near the NE edge and another runs NE-SW immediately to the S-SE. On satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 9 July 2020) the monument appears heavily overgrown with trees with woodland to the N, E and W.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.