Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Higginstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Higginstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66106, -7.18417
- SMR number
- KK020-124----
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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
In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The cropmarks of three conjoined enclosures (KK020-125----; KK020-126----; KK020-127----) are also visible c. 100m to the SE.
See attached imagery:
KK020-124----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 June 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.