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Settlement deserted - medieval

Tullaherin, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Tullaherin, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullaherin
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.57913, -7.13066
SMR number
KK024-062007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the brow of a gentle S-facing slope with excellent views of the surrounding countryside except to the W where the ground level rises. It is surrounded by an area of marsh from SW-W-N.
Included by Empey (1990, 85) in a list of medieval towns, or settlements with borough status. The settlement appears to have developed from an early medieval monastic site which still retains its church (KK024-062001-), graveyard (KK024-062002-) and round tower (KK024-062004-). The settlement extends to the N and W of the church. It consists of a complex series of at least eight clearly defined rectangular, subcircular and subtriangular enclosures and platforms, and linear embankments, spread out across the field with a particular concentration of remains on the N downslope. The larger rectangular and triangular enclosures most likely represent tofts or crofts while the smaller platforms are probably house sites.

See attached photograph:
KK024-062007-_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (414) 3, 6 March 2004)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 4 October 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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