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Moated site

Feathallagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Feathallagh, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Feathallagh
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.69161, -7.14755
SMR number
KK015-027----

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David 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

In a small wood at the foot of uplands looking to W and SW above a boggy plain. To the E there is a steep slope of reclaimed grassland rising up to Castlecomer hills. Good views across lowlands to N, S and W, poor to E. A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 1.5m at crest; overall Wth 6m; int. H at least 1.4m; ext. H c. 1.6m) and fosse (Wth 2m; D 1-1.4m to N, S and W; D at least 2m to E). Barry (1977, 190) describes the fosse as being a 'Wet moat 3m wide and 4.4m in depth'. The monument was heavily overgrown with scrub at time of inspection.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 2 March 2016

References

Barry, T.B. 1977 Medieval moated sites of south-eastern Ireland. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 35. Oxford.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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