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Enclosure

Rathreagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathreagh, 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
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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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

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.

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