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
- 52.69904, -7.28311
- SMR number
- KK014-053001-
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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 top 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 curvilinear enclosure, possibly D-shaped (diam. c. 60m) delimited by fosse, identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BOD029 and BOD032, 10 July 1973) with another circular enclosure (KK014-053002-) located immediately to the NW, possibly conjoined. The field has been quarried and the extent of the quarrying is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth 20 November 2005 and 8 March 2010) which shows that both enclosures have been badly damaged and perhaps largely removed. Subsequently the quarry appears to have been filled in and the land reclaimed for agriculture (Google Earth 21 April 2019). There is another enclosure (KK014-054----) c. 50m to the SE.
See attached aerial photographs (CUCAP BOD029 and 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.