Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Clomantagh (mountgarret), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clomantagh (mountgarret)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73153, -7.49515
- SMR number
- KK012-101----
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
On the lower SE-slopes of Clonmantagh Hill. A large oval enclosure (dims. c. 85m NE-SW; c. 68m NW-SE), defined by a low bank or scarp, visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2022 and DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2011-2013), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a small area of quarrying in the NE sector and though the monument is not indicated on any OS 6-inch map, this quarry, with a limekiln, is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map.
See attached imagery:
KK012-101----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 10 August 2022
KK012-101----_02 DigitalGlobe satellite imagery, imagery date 2011-2013
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.