Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Huntstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.