Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Croan (shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croan (shillelogher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57359, -7.21266
- SMR number
- KK023-082----
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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. 34m) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1947 revision. Most of the E portion of the enclosure lies within a fallow rectangular area (dims. c. 36m NW-SE; c. 32m NE-SW). Satellite imagery (Apple Maps) shows the perimeter of the portion of the enclosure within the rectangular field as an upstanding bank while the W and N perimeter is visible as the cropmark of a fosse. Also visible to the NE and SW, though not from W-N-NE, is a possible outer fosse, c. 20m from the inner enclosing element, which suggests that this may be a concentric enclosure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 26 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.