Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Gorteennamuck, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteennamuck
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.77839, -7.48746
- SMR number
- KK009-005001-
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 a hill in an area of rock outcrop and scrubland recently cleared for grazing. Off-centre within a ringfort (KK009-005----) in the SE quadrant there is a sub-rectangular house site (diam. 7m N-S; 9m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth at crest 0.7m; overall Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.09m; ext. H 0.25-0.4m). There is a hawthorn tree growing on the N side of the house site.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.