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Ringfort - rath

Newtown (Gowran By., Kilkenny Rural ED), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newtown, 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
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----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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