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
- 52.66185, -7.04892
- SMR number
- KK021-042005-
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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
In tillage. Aerial photographs (GB95.FQ.42,43 & 44 and GB95.FS.06, August 1995; ASIAP (15) 25, August 1996) show the cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m). One of five ring-ditches (KK021-042002- to KK021-042006-) located in close proximity to a plough-levelled barrow (KK021-042001-); the whole assemblage indicative of a prehistoric cemetery.
See attached phototgraph:
KK021-042005-_01 ASIAP (15) 19, August 1996
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of revised upload: 1 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.