Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (gowran By., Kilkenny Rural Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (gowran By., Kilkenny Rural Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66143, -7.31292
- SMR number
- KK019-016----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In rolling grassland, with a modern tree plantation to the NE delimiting the extent of the monument in that sector. Identified as an upstanding enclosure on an aerial photograph (GSI S481, 1973-3). A roughly circular area (int. dims. 50m E-W; 42m N-S) enclosed by a low wide bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1-1.5m; Wth at crest 4m; overall Wth 8.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 4.2m) at SSE with a causeway (L 3m; Wth 4.2m) over the fosse. An E-W field boundary, indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS map and the 1945-6 revision, bisects the interior. A rectangular platform (L 5m E-W; Wth 2m N-S; H 0.2m) in the N portion may represent a house site (KK019-016001-). A circular platform (diam. 3.2m; H 0.2m) occurs immediately N of the bisecting field boundary. The fosse at NE has been recut as a drain. On Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 21 September 2020) a farm trackway appears to have been constructed around the outer edge of the enclosure (SE-W-NW).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 21 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.