Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Newtown (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (fassadinin By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77424, -7.22766
- SMR number
- KK010-044----
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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 a gentle E-facing slope, before land falls steeply to valley floor and the Dinin river which is c. 400m to the E. There are good views to the E and S but the view is impeded to the N and W by rising ground. There are two springs immediately S of the moated site. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NNW-SSE; c. 15m E-W) but not shown on the subsequent 1947 revision where the field boundaries have altered slightly. The monument may have been levelled when the field boundary which was immediately N of the monument was removed and another WNW-ESE field boundary inserted slightly S of this, possibly cutting across the N portion of the monument. It is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.