Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Toornamongan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toornamongan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77463, -7.60102
- SMR number
- KK008-043----
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
On the W side of a broad and only slightly elevated N-S ridge, a little below the crest, in rolling pasture. There are quite good views in all directions. Identified as a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 35m) on a Geological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph (roll 43, print 15). The monument is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.