Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Holdenstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Holdenstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61572, -7.16238
- SMR number
- KK024-020003-
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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AP.26, 22 July 1989) shows cropmark of a large curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 80m) defined by a fosse surrounding the church (KK024-020001-) and graveyard (KK024-020002-) at Holdenstown. The enclosure is also visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 14 September 2019).
See attached:
KK024-020003-_01 aerial photograph (GB89.AP.26, 22 July 1989)
KK024-020003-_02 satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 14 September 2019)
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of upload: 29 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.