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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59222, -7.20808
- SMR number
- KK023-049002-
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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
An oval enclosure (dims. c. 36m N-W; c. 47m N-S) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (CUCAP AYK063, 9 July 1969; BDI038, 14 July 1970). On the OS 6-inch maps (1839 1st ed. and 1947 revision) a field boundary is indicated running along the W edge of the enclosure, from SSW-W. An enclosure (KK023-049001-) conjoins to the E and another enclosure (KK023-049003-), also identified as a cropmark on the aerial photographs, is located c. 30m to the WNW.
KK023-049001-_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK063, 9 July 1969)
KK023-049001-_02 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDI038, 14 July 1970)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.