Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunmore West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70209, -7.28418
- SMR number
- KK014-051----
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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
Slightly below the crest of a NW-SE gravel ridge along the E side of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are fair to good views in all directions. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) delimited by wide fosse from E-S-W identified as a cropmark on a number of aerial photographs (CUCAP ASW041, 17 July 1967; AVO092, 17 July 1968; BGG 039, 16 July 1971; BOD030, 10 July 1973). A strip of woodland plantation, which runs roughly E-W to the N, encroaches into the NW-N sector. It is not visible at ground level. There is another enclosure (KK014-052----) c. 80m to the SE.
See attached aerial photographs (CUCAP AVO092, 17 July 1968; BOD032, 10 July 1973)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 June 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.