Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Feathallagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.