Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lavistown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lavistown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64093, -7.20213
- SMR number
- KK019-115----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge overlooking the River Nore which flows c. 200m to the SW, in pasture. An aerial photograph (GB89.V.12, 13 July 1989) shows cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure (dims. c. 25m N-S and E-W) defined by a fosse. A curvilinear enclosure (KK019-114----) is located immediately to the SE.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 20 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.