Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilree (knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilree (knocktopher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.59580, -7.21488
- SMR number
- KK023-048001-
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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 level ground. A roughly oval enclosure (max. diam. c. 45m) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, the W side, running NW-SE is depicted as being straight, and the monument is contained within a small roughly triangular-shaped field. On the 1947 revision OS 6-inch map the field boundaries to the E and S have been removed and the W field boundary, running NW-SE, transects the W sector. The monument was inspected in March 1957 when it was densely overgrown with thorny scrub (OPW Correspondence, 25 March 1957). The interior (int. diam. 32m N-S; 39.6m E-W) was enclosed by a collapsed dry stone wall (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.06m) and outer fosse (Wth 3.65m; D 0.76m) (ibid.). By August 1957 the monument had been levelled (OPW Correspondence, 16 August 1957). Aerial photographs (CUCAP AYK062, 9 July 1969; BDI039, 14 July 1970; BGG011 and BGG012, 16 July 1971) show the enclosure as a cropmark with a wide deep fosse and a small circular cropmark, probably a hut site (KK023-048002-) in the W quadrant of the interior.
KK023-048001-_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK062, 9 July 1969)
KK023-048001-_02 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDI039, 14 July 1970)
KK023-048001-_03 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG012, 16 July 1971)
KK023-048001-_04 sketch plan and section (OPW Correspondence, 25 March 1957)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.