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
- 52.69619, -7.01255
- SMR number
- KK016-027----
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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 wet marshy terrain. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 62m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) identified as a cropmark (Wth c. 4m) on Google Earth satellite imagery (imagery date 18 April 2009) by Simon Dowling. Possibly the edge of a natural pond.
See attached photograph:
KK016-027----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 18 April 2009)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.