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
- 52.79442, -7.56676
- SMR number
- KK003-018005-
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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. 12m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a bank which is well preserved along the S and W sides and the W half of the N side. The bank is particularly wide along the W side including the NW and SW angles (Wth 5m). The N bank is conjoined with a rectangular enclosure (KK003-018004-). The E quadrant appears to be open sided, with a short N-S return (L 2m) at the E end of the S wall. The N bank, however, does appear to continue eastward up to a fall of steep scarp. There is a circular enclosure (KK003-018001-) immediately to the NW; a rectangular enclosure (KK003-018006-) 3m to the S and another rectangular enclosure (KK003-018003-) above and conjoined to enclosure KK003-018004-.
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.