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Settlement cluster

Rathcash West, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Rathcash West, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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