Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.76869, -7.33044
- SMR number
- KK010-170----
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.36, 13 July 1989) show a curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a bank and an external fosse.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of upload: 12 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.