Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Blanchvillestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blanchvillestown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62894, -7.12181
- SMR number
- KK020-088----
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
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
In tillage. Identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (114) 9-13, 22 July 2000). The cropmark highlights the fosse of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m). A larger ring-ditch (KK020-084----) is located c. 8m to the NNW and another ring-ditch (KK020-087----) is located c. 26m to the SSE.
See attached:
KK020-088----_01 ASIAP (114) 9, 22 July 2000
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.