Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeen (crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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.