Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathclogh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathclogh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58759, -7.21980
- SMR number
- KK023-171----
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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. 65m) identified on lidar (Open Topographic Data Viewer, viewed 8 June 2020) and as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 14 September 2019) by Jean-Charles Caillère. It is located in a field immediately S of Rathclogh House and farmyard. A farm building appears to have been built partially on the N fosse of the enclosure. A field boundary runs NE-SW across the S portion of the enclosure. There is another enclosure (KK023-061----) c. 110m to the SSE.
See attached:
KK023-171----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 14 September 2019
KK023-171----_02 Open Topographic Data Viewer, viewed 8 June 2020
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.