Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Brownstown (Knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown (Knocktopher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67856, -7.21261
- SMR number
- KK014-071001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a waterlogged valley floor which is criss-crossed with numerous small streams. Found during land works in 1983, an area of stone paving (max. dims. c. 20m E-W x c. 10m N-S) described as, ‘flat field stones, that seem to be fixed in some hard clay’. The N side is narrower (L c. 16m; Wth 2.7m). A shallow ditch, ‘like a plough furrow’ extended NE-SW from the E and W side (NMI, file IA/158/83). The E trench extends for at least 30m north-eastward to a former marsh. It is not visible at ground level. The function and date of this feature is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.