Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunbell Big, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbell Big
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.61109, -7.17614
- SMR number
- KK024-016----
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
Heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. There is a deep large quarry c. 20m to the E. Indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision as a multivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; overall diam. c. 75m) defined by two concentric banks. Another enclosure identified by Prim (1872-3, 225) is located c. 30m to the W and another bivallate enclosure (KK024-018----) is located c. 140m to the S.
See attached:
KK024-016----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP ASW037, 17 July 1967)
KK024-016----_02 GB89.Q.30, 13 July 1989
KK024-016----_03 Prim’s map of 1872-3, 225
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
References
Prim, J.G.A. 1872-3 The ogham monuments of Kilkenny, being a letter from Samuel Ferguson, Esq. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 12, 222-38.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.