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Moated site

Stangs, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Stangs, 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
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----

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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 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

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

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