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Ringfort - rath

Garryrickin, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garryrickin, 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
Garryrickin
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.47998, -7.42637
SMR number
KK030-009001-

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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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On level ground which falls gently from E-S-W and rises to the N. There are extensive views over a broad plain to the E and W. Within a large triangular pasture field called 'Bawnacrusha'. Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 318) describes the monument as, 'a partially dismantled rath, within which were discovered two stone-roofed apartments now destroyed', though he mistakenly assigns them to the adjacent Butlerswood townland. The ringfort is under grass and otherwise relatively clear of vegetation.
A circular raised area (int. diam. 33m) defined by a bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 1.5m), except from N-E where it is degraded, and an external fosse (Wth 7m; D. 0.8m). There is a possible ramped entrance (Wth c. 3.5m) at the SSW. In the W quadrant there is a linear E-W depression (L 11m; Wth 5m; D c. 1m), indicating the collapsed souterrain (KK030-009002-), which according to Carrigan (ibid.) had two chambers.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 July 2023

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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