Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Firoda Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Firoda Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84321, -7.27174
- SMR number
- KK005-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In an area of marsh and forestry, on a SE-facing slope, overlooking the former Mount Firoda House to S. An ornamental feature of Lord Bellew’s former Mount Firoda Estate. Locally known as the ‘Duck Pond’, it comprises a circular area of very wet marsh (max. diam. c. 130m N-S) enclosed by a ring of closely set rhododendron. Within this enclosing ring there is a broad drain, off-centre, circular in plan and now almost completely choked with vegetation. It surrounds a slightly raised copse of conifers. The drain was formerly water-filled and water was drawn from it, channelled through a linear trench (indicated on OS) for the domestic use of house and farm.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated site1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.