Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathreagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathreagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79457, -7.56725
- SMR number
- KK003-018001-
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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 gentle SW-facing slope in undulating grassland within a broad river valley. A circular area (diam. 29m) largely enclosed by scarp with traces of an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 1m) in the ESE and SW quadrants and outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.6m). The E quadrant of the interior is sub-divided by a bank running N-S from and to the edge of the scarp. There is a splayed causewayed entrance (Wth at top 1m; Wth at base 6m) in the S quadrant which slopes down from the interior. A low bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.4m) runs N-S from the fosse, immediately W of the entrance, for a distance of 16m. Immediately E-SE of this enclosure are four rectangular enclosures (KK003-018003-; KK003-018004-; KK003-018005-; KK003-018006-) aligned E-W, the most northerly (KK003-018003-) runs up to the fosse of the circular enclosure, while an adjoining rectangular enclosure (KK003-018004-) immediately S of this abuts the fosse.
Compiled: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 February 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.