Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Sheastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheastown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60490, -7.18752
- SMR number
- KK024-029----
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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
Identified as a possible rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 120m E-W) defined by two concentric fosses visible as cropmarks on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK066, 9 July 1969). The S portion of the enclosure, S of a roughly E-W running field boundary, is more visible (dims. c. 40m N-S). The outer fosse (L c. 20m) is visible running N of the field boundary on the E side. The enclosure is within Bennettsbridge limestone quarry and on satellite imagery it appears to have been much disturbed, at least partially quarried out, with a quarry road running NW-SE through it (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021).
See attached:
KK024-029----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK066, 9 July 1969)
KK024-029----_02 satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.