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Earthwork

Clomantagh Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Clomantagh Lower, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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