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Ringfort - rath

Kilkenny, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilkenny, County Roscommon, 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
Kilkenny
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.41560, -8.13013
SMR number
RO051-031001-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

At the SE end of a slight NW-SE ridge in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 37m NNW-SSE; 32m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 2-2.5m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.8-7m; Wth of base 1-1.5m; D 1.3m) from an outer bank (Wth 3-5m; H 1.2-1.6m). A second outer fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.5m) and traces of a third bank (at NNW: Wth 2.5m; max. H 0.3m) only survive across the ridge (NNW-N) (max. ext. diam. 64m N-S), but there is also a fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.4m) and slight outer bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.1m) outside the outer bank SE-SW. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 2.3m) and outer (Wth 2.4m) banks with a causeway (Wth 3.2m) across the inner fosse at S.
An overgrown rectangular enclosure or annnexe (RO051-031002-) (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-5m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 2m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.3-0.5m) is attached to the outer bank at E, but the annexe is situated on low-lying ground. It has an entrance (Wth 2.4m), probably modern, at S.

See the attached aerial image taken from the NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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