Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killeen (crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (crannagh By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.62125, -7.48050
- SMR number
- KK018-052----
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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
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 48m) with the sinuous Munster River flowing NW-SE c. 20m to the S. The monument was inspected in November 1955 and was described as consisting of, 'a low bank of indeterminate shape close to the lane which runs along the E bank of the Munster River' (OPW correspondence files, November 1955). It was subsequently levelled as part of Land Project works (ibid.). An outer fosse is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 July 2020).
See attached satellite image (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 July 2020)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.