Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Stangs, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stangs
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63919, -7.05171
- SMR number
- KK020-092----
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 tillage. A rectangular enclosure (int. dims. c. 34m NE-SW; c. 37m NW-SE) enclosed by a wide deep fosse (Wth c. 4m) identified as a cropmark by Gillian Barrett on an aerial photograph (GB94.FI.29, August 1994). Also visible as a cropmark on Google Earth imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018; 3 July 2019) identified by Simon Dowling, with a linear cropmark (L c. 30m) running NW from the N angle and another (L c. 80m) running SE from the S end of the SE side, possibly part of an associated field system.
See attached Google Earth imagery
KK020-092----_01 (imagery date 14 July 2018)
KK020-092----_02 (imagery date 3 July 2019)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.