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
- 52.79454, -7.56669
- SMR number
- KK003-018004-
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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 rectangular enclosure (dims. 17m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined to N by a bank conjoined with a rectangular enclosure (KK003-018003-); to the E by a steep slope; to the S by a bank conjoined with a rectangular enclosure (KK003-018005-) and to the W it runs up towards and abuts an adjacent circular enclosure (KK003-018001-). Another rectangular enclosure (KK003-018006-), also aligned E-W, lies S of rectangular enclosure KK003-018005-.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 February 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.