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Enclosure

Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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