Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shankill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69482, -7.02292
- SMR number
- KK016-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 62m; int. diam. c. 46m) identified on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Simon Dowling and Jean-Charles Caillère. The cropmark indicated that the enclosure has an inner and outer fosse, these are c. 7-9m apart. The outer curve of the monument is respected by a curving field boundary along the W half from SW-W-NNW and another E-W field boundary, which is also a water course, runs along the S side. There is a ringfort (KK016-004----) c. 260m to the NE.
See attached photograph:
KK016-026----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.