Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lyrath (gowran By., Clara Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lyrath (gowran By., Clara Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64570, -7.19183
- SMR number
- KK020-030002-
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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. Identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDI005 and BDI006, 14 July 1970) and interpreted as a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 40m). The cropmark delineating the fosse along the S side is particularly pronounced and there appears to be an entrance on the E side. Another rectilinear enclosure (KK020-030001-) was also identified immediately to the N but this may be part of a larger co-axial field system running NE-SW. There is a ringfort (KK020-031----) c. 40m to the SW. A curving trackway (KK020-030003-) was also identified as a cropmark, running roughly NE-SW to the NW of the ringfort. A sandpit, indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map is also evident as a cropmark on the aerial photograph immediately W of the enclosure.
See attached aerial photograph CUCAP BDI006, 14 July 1970
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.