Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Oldtown (knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (knocktopher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76895, -7.33893
- SMR number
- KK010-169----
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
Aerial photograph (GB89.P.43, 13 July 1989) shows cropmark of a fosse demarcating the corner of what may be a large rectilinear enclosure or field system (N boundary running E-W L c. 300m; E boundary running N-S curving to W L c. 200m); a pair of ring-ditches (KK010-167----, KK010-168----)are located within the enclosing fosse.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 28 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.