Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Gowran Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowran Demesne
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62448, -7.06656
- SMR number
- KK020-061003-
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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
On flat level ground within Gowran demesne. Identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK080, 9 July 1969). Listed as ‘enclosure site’ in the SMR (1987) and RMP (1996). The cropmark is of a fosse running roughly N-S E of a tower house (KK020-060001-) and c. 20m E of a bawn also visible on this aerial photograph. The feature appears to continue N and disappears into the vegetation on the banks of a stream, c. 130m N of the bawn. It is possible that this is an old stream course. A faint cropmark also runs parallel with the feature, c. 6m to the W, for c. 80m E of the bawn and may indicate a trackway following the course of the stream.
See attached aerial photographs:
KK020-060003-_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
KK020-060003-_02 CUCAP AYK080, 9 July 1969
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.