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Ringfort - rath

Huntstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Huntstown, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Huntstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.66153, -7.41153
SMR number
KK018-036----

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David 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 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 50m NW-SE; c. 17m NE-SW) with a field boundary running NW-SE along the W side, however, this may represent only the E portion of the original enclosure. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1900 revision. In 1951 it is described as, 'the N.E. quadrant of a circular earthen ringfort with outer ditch and inner bank. The latter carried a relatively heavy growth of thorn trees and there were indications that it had been dug in places' (NMI Correspondence files, 3 April 1951). The moment was removed in the 1950s as part of the Land Project works (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 6 July 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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