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Ringfort - unclassified

Killarney, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Killarney, 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
Killarney
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.55714, -7.16463
SMR number
KK028-006001-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating terrain. There is an enclosure (KK028-007----) c. 150m to the E. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 46m E-W; int. diam. c. 16m) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1948-9 revision. The enclosure was defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 1-2m) and external fosse (Wth c. 3m) (Prendergast, unpublished NMI report, April 1962). Known locally as, ‘the rath’, the monument was levelled in 1961, during which time a souterrain (KK028-006002-) was uncovered. The souterrain occupies the E sector of the enclosure, running roughly ENE-WSW from beneath the internal face of the bank to the interior. 

 

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Nearby in the register

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

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