Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Spahill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spahill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75201, -7.49706
- SMR number
- KK008-105----
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 sloping field, running down from W-E, formerly poor marginal land. There is a meandering former river course c. 60m to the N. Identified as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on an aerial photograph (GSI roll 43, print 31). Also clearly visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (174) 29-30, March 2001). When inspected in 1986 the enclosure was not visible at ground level. The monument is now totally surrounded by forestry, with a circular area (diam. c. 40m) left free of planting where the enclosure is located.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.