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Ringfort - rath

Killeen (Crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killeen, 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
Killeen (Crannagh By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.62359, -7.47404
SMR number
KK018-054----

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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

On a S-facing slope. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m).The monument was inspected in November 1955 and was described being, 'apparently a mutilated ring-fort. The N side has been cut off by the road, the E transformed by its use as the W boundary of the adjoining farmyard. The bank is about 4' [c. 1.2m] high on W & 6' [c. 1.8m] high on S side, the difference in height being accounted for by the southward slope of the ground level. There is no sign of a ditch. The top of the bank does not rise above the internal ground level, the whole monument being, in fact, a sort of raised platform' (OPW correspondence files, November 1955).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 7 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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