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
- 52.69949, -7.28108
- SMR number
- KK014-157----
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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
A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 55m), defined by a wide fosse (Wth c. 4m) which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a possible entrance (Wth c. 4m) in the SE sector. A field boundary runs NE-SW across the NW sector of the enclosure. There is an enclosure (KK014-054----) c. 40m to the SW, another (KK014-053001-) c. 120m to the WSW and another (KK014-053002-) c. 160m to the W.
See attached imagery:
KK014-157----_01 Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 June 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.