Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Wallslough, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wallslough
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.60658, -7.19976
- SMR number
- KK024-007----
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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
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 73m). A field boundary running roughly E-W along the N side of the monument kink out slightly respecting the curving perimeter of the enclosure. The monument has been levelled but is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (GB96.FW.15, 20 July 1996; ASIAP (18) 7-10, 2 August 1996; ASIAP (105) 15-20, 22 July 2000; ASIAP (273) 18, 2 December 2001). Also visible on these aerial photographs is an inner concentric enclosure (diam. c. 34m) with a well-defined SE-facing entrance. The inner and outer fosse are c.14-20m apart. A large curvilinear enclosure (KK024-123----) is also visible as a cropmark c. 10m to the SW and may be part of an associated field system.
See attached:
KK024-007----_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (18) 9, 2 August 1996)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 21 September 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.