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Ringfort - rath

Shortallstown,Grovebeg, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Shortallstown, Grovebeg, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Shortallstown,Grovebeg
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.50698, -7.27715
SMR number
KK027-041----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level pasture, with trees, bushes and briars growing around the perimeter and scrub in the interior. The N sector is transected by a deer park wall running ENE-WSW and the bank and fosse are not visible at ground level N of this wall. There is another enclosure (KK027-089----) c. 40m to the NW.
A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 70m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 2m; Wth 3m) and outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.5m), the latter being waterlogged in the E quadrant (OPW Correspondence files, May 1957). The bank is visible from SE-S-SW, from NE-E-SE it is reduced to scarp and in the W it has been replaced by a straight narrow field ditch (ibid.). The fosse continues from the deer park wall in the NE to the SW sector(ibid.). There is a gap (2.4m) in the bank in the SE (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 3 April 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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