Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dicksborough, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dicksborough
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64788, -7.28749
- SMR number
- KK019-149----
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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
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 52m), defined from N-E-S by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The outline of the perimeter from S-W-N has been preserved in a curving field boundary.
See attached imagery:
KK019-149----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery date 10 August 2022
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.