Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Clarabricken, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clarabricken
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.66740, -7.14341
- SMR number
- KK020-006----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a fairly steep W-facing slope, in rough upland pasture. A large circular enclosure (diam. 68.5m N-S; 73m E-W) defined by a bank (H above ext. 0.9m; Wth 2.7m) in the W quadrant and by a shallow fosse (Wth 4.5m) to the N and SE-S. The NE quadrant is truncated by a field boundary running NW-SE. A townland boundary runs NE-SW along the N perimeter. The interior, which is under grass, follows the natural slope and the ground both inside and outside is uneven. The external fosse is heavily overgrown with thorny scrub.
There is another similar enclosure (KK020-004----) c. 190m to the NW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.