Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Danesfort, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danesfort
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Turret
- Latest-edition OS map
- Turret (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.56736, -7.23188
- SMR number
- KK023-080001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Centrally placed within a ringwork (KK023-080----) with good views in all directions. Indicated as 'Turret (in ruins)' on OS 6-inch map (1947 revised edition). A late 18th/19th-century, two-storey octagonal structure (int. diam. 5.5m; wall T 0.6m) constructed of limestone rubble with brick employed around the window reveal, first-floor fireplace and chimney. There is a ground-floor entrance at N with fenestration comprising ten round-headed windows; five on each floor. Additional features include first-floor timbers in situ and a rectangular aumbrey in the NW wall. Visible on aerial photograph (GB89.P.16) surmounting the earlier ringwork.
See attached:
KK023-080001-_01 Folly from the ESE (26 October 1994)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringwork and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.