Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Talbotshill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Talbotshill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.63275, -7.09423
- SMR number
- KK020-058----
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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
Heavily overgrown with scrub. Indicated as a large sub-square enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a road running NW-SE along the straight NE side and the other sides, which also are depicted as straight, are enclosed by field boundaries, the E and S angles of the monument are shown as curving. On the 1900 revision the SE and SW sides are straight while the NE and NW sides are curving. The enclosure (dims. c. 75m NW-SE; max. 60m NE-SW) tapers towards the SE (c. 33m NE-SW). Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 414) as, 'a fine circular fort called Rathcusack'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 December 2020
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.