Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbeagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74918, -7.36153
- SMR number
- KK009-105----
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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 tillage. Aerial photographs (GB89.P.31and P.38) show cropmarks of a complex monument comprising a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse with a possible entrance in the SE quadrant. There is a curving internal fosse within the enclosure from NE-E-S-SW, running into the outer fosse from W-NE, possibly indicates an earlier enclosure at this location, the larger enclosure utilising the NW fosse of the earlier enclosure. A large conjoined curvilinear enclosure extends westwards from the SW quadrant, curving around to join a linear field boundary runnning roughly NE-SW to the NW of the enclosure. The monument is surrounded by an extensive plough-levelled field system (KK009-106----), mainly rectilinear in character, which was largely upstanding on the 1st (1839) and revised (1900) eds of the 6-inch OS map.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 30 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.