Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilmanagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmanagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62105, -7.42742
- SMR number
- KK018-066003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Kilmanagh is associated with an early medieval monastery founded by St Natal (Carrigan 1905, vol. 429) with a medieval church (KK018-06601-) roughly centrally placed within the village. According to a local source the field immediately SE of the medieval church and graveyard is locally known as the site of the old village. O’Kelly (1985, 17) mentions that one of the fields in Kilmanagh is known as, ‘Clais an bhaile, the village trench, now filled up’, which possibly relates to a settlement boundary associated with the medieval borough (KK018-066----). There is no visible trace of earthworks above ground.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 March 2021
References
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.