Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunmore Park, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore Park
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70592, -7.25604
- SMR number
- KK014-039----
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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 slight rise at the N end of a ridge between two streams, on stoney ground, under tillage. There are very good views in all directions. A circular (int. diam. c. 45m) enclosure is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map within an area of woodland and, in the accompanying OS Letters, it is noted as one of 'two ancient Raths' in the townland (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 39 (13)). According to local tradition it is known as the 'Large Rath'. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1946-7 OS 6-inch revision though the area of woodland is which suggest the enclosure may have been levelled by this date. It is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 28 June 2018) with a wide deep fosse (Wth c. 5m).
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 28 June 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 June 2020
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.