Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Rathcash West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcash West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64024, -7.12741
- SMR number
- KK020-041----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
In gently undulating low-lying terrain, in mixed tillage and pasture. Identified during the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline in 1983 (Lehane 1983, 266-7). Described as 'a deserted village of possible medieval date. The village is well preserved and several rectangular and circular structures with interconnecting trackways are visible on the ground' (ibid.). A number of excavation trenches were opened but no archaeological material was uncovered (ibid). The date of this settlement is unknown. A satellite image (Google Earth) taken in November 2005 shows the settlement earthworks with a tillage field immediately to the W and an irregular tillage field to the N. Another satellite image (Google Earth) taken in April 2011 shows that the field has been reclaimed and the earthworks levelled.
See attached satellite imagery:
KK020-041----_01 satellite image Google Earth, 20 November 2005
KK020-041----_02 satellite image, OS ortho
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.