Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldtown (shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (shillelogher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58828, -7.27788
- SMR number
- KK023-133----
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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
Aerial photographs (ASIAP (22) 0, 2-3, August 1996; GB96.GA.15, 20 July 1996) show a cropmark of the fosse of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), with an E-facing entrance. Faint linear fosses immediately NW suggested an associated field system (KK023-134----). Another cropmark enclosure (KK023-135----) and field system (KK023-136----) lies c. 200m to the NW.
See attached:
KK023-0133----_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (22) 0, 2-3, August 1996)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of revised upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.