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Castle - ringwork

Purcellsinch, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - ringwork, Purcellsinch, 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
Purcellsinch
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.64279, -7.20969
SMR number
KK019-103----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the S end of an N-S ridge, beyond which the ground slopes down to a stream c. 90m to the W and slopes towards the River Nore c. 400m to the S. A raised roughly round platform (diam. 40m E-W; 44m N-S; H 1-1.5m on N and E sides; H 3m gradual fall on W side) which on the S side it is enclosed by a wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m) and outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m). The surface of the platform is relatively flat and slopes slightly to the W. There are beech trees around the edge of the platform and bushes and scrub on the N side. On the S side the beech trees are on a stepped down berm (Wth 1.5m) 0.4m lower than the edge of the platform. There has been some ground disturbance on the E side where field boundaries were removed. A discussion of this monument, together with a plan and section, has been published by Neary (2005, 106-08).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 6 December 2016

References

Neary, P. J. H. 2005 A newly discovered Anglo-Norman ringwork castle from Purcell's Inch townland, Kilkenny. Old Kilkenny Review 57, 106-08.

Nearby in the register

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

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