Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Brittas, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67648, -7.44834
- SMR number
- KK018-074----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a S-facing slope in upland terrain. A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 53m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) identified as a cropmark of a levelled bank and outer fosse on an aerial photograph (GSI S478, 1973-7).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.