Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathkyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkyle
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79000, -7.26858
- SMR number
- KK010-010----
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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
On the gentle lower slopes of the W side of the Gloshia river, in rolling grassland. There are fair views across the valley and low hills in all directions. It is depicted on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 23m NE-SW), the N portion of which has been truncated by a road. On the 1947 revision it is shown as an oval area delineated by a field boundary, while on the 25-inch OS map a limekiln is depicted immediately outside the NW quadrant. When visited in 1987 the enclosure was not visible at ground level. There is now a house on or immediately outside the S edge of the enclosure, with a front garden and driveway on the levelled enclosure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.