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Ring-ditch

Smithstown Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Smithstown Upper, 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
Smithstown Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54200, -7.13707
SMR number
KK028-107----

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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 tillage. A circular ring-ditch (overall diam. c. 18m; int. diam. c. 10m), defined by a wide fosse (Wth 4-5m), visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite image, imagery date 13 April 2020), identified and reported by James Eogan. In June 1968 a Bronze Age decorated flat axe-head was recovered from a mound which was being levelled in Smithstown Upper townland (Prendergast 1970, 14-16). The precise location of the mound is unknown, but it may be the same monument as this ring-ditch, which when upstanding could have been a mound enclosed by a fosse. The monument is on the line of a NE-SW running field boundary, indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1948-9 revision but now visible as a cropmark. It is possible that the monument was levelled at the same time as the field boundary.

See attached:
KK028-107----_01 Google Earth satellite image, imagery date 13 April 2020

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 20 June 2022

References

Prendergast, E. 1970 Smithstown axe-head. Old Kilkenny Review. 14-16.

Nearby in the register

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

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