Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greatoak, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatoak
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57384, -7.39795
- SMR number
- KK022-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle N-facing slope in pasture. On the 1st (1839) and revised (1899-1900) eds. of the OS 6-inch map a public road runs along the edge of a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 46m) from E-SE-S. The enclosure was levelled in the 1970s. The acute bend in the road, which respected the monument, has since been removed and the road now runs NE-SW through the S portion of the enclosure. According to local memory the enclosure has a slight bank and a shallow outer fosse.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.