Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Garryduff (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryduff (gowran By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66191, -7.04956
- SMR number
- KK021-042002-
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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
Aerial photographs (GB95.FQ.42,43 & 44 and GB95.FS.06, August 1995; ASIAP (15), 16, 20 and 26, August 1996) show the cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 20m). One of five ring-ditches (KK021-042003- c. 12m to NW; KK021-042004- and KK021-042005- c. 30m to the E and KK021-042006- c. 50m to the SW) located c. 20m NW of a plough-levelled barrow (KK021-042001-); the whole assemblage indicative of a prehistoric cemetery.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 26 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.