Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Bootstown (Cox), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bootstown (Cox)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.69445, -7.39732
- SMR number
- KK013-062----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight natural N-S hillock, a little below the crest of a hillside on gently sloping very wet grassland, on the W slopes of small N-S river valley. There is a stream running immediately outside the SE quadrant and another stream c. 40m to the N-NW, both indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. There are fair views to N-E-S, but limited by rising ground to W.
A flat, waterlogged oval platform (dims. 30m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.9-1.5m) and external berm (Wth c. 7m E and W side; 10-15m N and S side) of lower oval mound (H c. 0.5-1m above external ground level), possibly a modified natural hillock.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 March 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.