Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Furzehouse, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Furzehouse
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61487, -7.21846
- SMR number
- KK023-112----
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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. 35m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (ASIAP (105) 1-4, 22 July 2000; GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996). There is also a sub-circular enclosure (KK023-127----) adjoining to the W, with a further rectilinear enclosure (KK023-128----) conjoined with the later to the NW. There is a ring-ditch (KK023-129----) c. 5m NW of the sub-circular conjoined enclosure.
See attached:
KK023-112----_01 aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.