Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clara Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clara Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.66499, -7.16661
- SMR number
- KK020-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision as a roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 52m) with a field boundary running roughly E-W along and truncating the N edge. The 25-inch OS map depicts the interior as being enclosed by a wide fosse and the W-NW edge has been disturbed by a small quarry which extends beyond the edge of the monument. It is heavily overgrown by scrub and trees. The field immediately N of the monument is under tillage and that surrounding it to the E-S-W is under pasture.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.