Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilnagarnagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnagarnagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.32459, -7.78520
- SMR number
- OF007-030----
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
On a natural rise in undulating countryside. Only the W half of the site survives from S though W to N. Originally a circular area (diam 30m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (ext. H 1.5m; int. H 0.5m) with shallow external fosse. No entrance feature visible. A field fence running N-S bisects the site in two with the E sector totally destroyed.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.