Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Burnchurch Viper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burnchurch Viper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56552, -7.27511
- SMR number
- KK023-168----
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
Monument identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (47) 20-27, 2 August 1996). The eastern portion of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) is visible with outer enclosure running concentrically at a distance of c. 15-20m. Possibly a concentric enclosure (overall diam. c. 80m). Much of the western half of the monument is within a farmyard and has been partially built upon.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.