Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Clomantagh Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clomantagh Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72485, -7.48510
- SMR number
- KK013-002005-
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 a low hill there are a complex series of platforms, banks and ponds located to N of the medieval church of Clomantagh (KK013-003001-) and S and E of Clomantagh Castle, which is an early 16th-century tower house (KK013-002001-). A semicircular bank extends from NW-N-E of church forming a roughly circular area (max. diam. c. 60m) with the graveyard at the S. The SE portion of the interior is divided E-W and N-S by banks forming an enclosure (approx. dims. c. 45m²). It is likely that these earthworks are contemporary with the medieval church and tower house. These earthworks are visible on an aerial photograph (ASIAP (174) 18, 3 March 2001) and are also visible on DigitalGlobe satellite imagery (viewed 22 July 2019).
See attached photograph:
KK013-002005-_01 ASIAP (174) 18, 3 March 2001
KK013-002005-_02 Earthworks between church (KK013-003001-) and tower house (KK013-002001-) from tower house looking S
KK013-002005-_03 Earthworks between church (KK013-003001-) and tower house (KK013-002001-) from church looking N
KK013-002005-_04 Earthworks between church (KK013-003001-) and tower house (KK013-002001-) from church looking NW
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.