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Barrow - unclassified

Threecastles Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Threecastles Demesne, 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
Threecastles Demesne
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70961, -7.32116
SMR number
KK014-026----

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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 S-facing slope, with land rising northward to a E-W ridge overlooking the River Nore which is c. 370m N of the monument, in tillage. There are good views along the river valley. Identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP BGG041, 16 July 1971; BDI016 and BOC094, 10 July 1973). A multivallate enclosure (overall diam. 100m) consisting of circular central area (diam. c. 22m), possibly of a mound, enclosed by berm (Wth c. 15m); wide fosse, berm (Wth c. 11m), fosse, outer berm or bank (Wth c. 5m) and outer fosse. The outer fosse is not visible in the SW quadrant where it appears to have been truncated by a NW-SE running field boundary. When visited in 1987 the low remnants of the monument survived, consisting of a central concave platform (diam. c. 32m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) enclosed by a wide fosse (Wth 16m) and a low wide outer bank (Wth c. 25m; ext. H 0.25m).

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Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 May 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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