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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.62829, -7.46099
- SMR number
- KK018-058----
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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
The monument was inspected in November 1955 and was described being, 'a double-banked ring-fort, much overgrown with briars. the outer bank has been removed on the E side to make room for a path. The banks are fairly high' (OPW correspondence files, November 1955). An accompanying sketch plan gives an internal diameter of 100' [c. 30m] N-S x 105' [32m] E-W and an overall diameter of 150' [c. 45m] (ibid.). There is a ringfort (KK018-057----) c. 150m to the SW, another (Kk018-056----) c. 440m to the W and an enclosure (KK018-055----) c. 575m to the SW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.