Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Drakeland Middle, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drakeland Middle
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.64121, -7.28447
- SMR number
- KK019-033----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Surrounded by grass. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 35m E-W) enclosed by a wide, waterlogged fosse (Wth 2-5m). The enclosure is overgrown with trees and scrub. Three field boundaries run up to the monument, one running N-S into the N sector, one running NE-SW into the NE sector and another running roughly E-W into the S sector.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.