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Ringfort - rath

Maddockstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Maddockstown, 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
Maddockstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.63259, -7.19491
SMR number
KK020-044----

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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

A large ringfort (diam. c. 60m) with trees growing around the perimeter and scrub in the interior. The edge of the SW-W sector has been encroached upon by plots associated with houses immediately S and NW of the monument. A public road runs roughly NW-SE between the ringfort and the medieval church (KK020-045001-) and graveyard (KK020-045002-) which is immediately SW of the road. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 366) describes it as, 'a very fine moat-shaped rath, probably the "Black Rath" from which the church was formerly named'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 8 December 2020

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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