Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Adamstown Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adamstown Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70292, -7.44328
- SMR number
- KK013-156----
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
In tillage. Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1946-7 revision. A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 60m), the fosse of which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 16 April 2020 and 24 March 2022; Digitalglobe, imagery date 2011-13), identified and reported by Rob O'Hara. The enclosure is slightly D-shaped as the fosse in the NE perimeter appears to be straight (L c. 40m).
See attached imagery:
KK013-156----_01 Google Earth, imagery date 16 April 2020
KK013-156----_02 Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2022
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.