Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Outrath, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Outrath
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.61518, -7.24592
- SMR number
- KK023-016----
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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
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) within a larger outer enclosure (diam. c. 100m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG023, 16 July 1971). The monument is shown as a concentric enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, though the SE-S portion of the monument from the edge of the inner enclosure appears to have been levelled by 1839. A main road (N10) formerly kinked out to respect the monument, visible on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and 1957 revision. By 1971, visible on the CUCAP aerial photograph, the monument had been levelled and the W edge had been truncated when the road was straightened. Two enclosures (KK023-017----; KK023-018----), identified as cropmarks, lie c. 130m and c. 230m to the ESE and SE respectively.
See attached:
KK023-016----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG023, 16 July 1971)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.