Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 52.58930, -7.28028
- SMR number
- KK023-136----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Faint linear cropmarks visible on aerial photographs (GB96.GA.15; ASIAP (22) 2-5 and (47) 28, August 1996) extending N and E of an enclosure (KK023-135---) suggest an associated field system. There is another cropmark enclosure (KK023-133----) c. 200m to the SE which also has an associated field system (KK023-134----).
See attached:
KK023-136----_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
- Enclosureunder 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.