Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Maddockstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.