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Moated site

Powerstown East, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Powerstown East, 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
Powerstown East
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.61372, -7.01149
SMR number
KK025-006----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the E bank of the Powerstown River which is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as flowing N-S immediately W of the enclosure. The enclosure is indicated on the 1st ed. map as a D-shaped enclosure, the N side possibly truncated by a field boundary which runs E-W along this straight side. It is not indicated on the 1900 revision and is visible on satellite imagery as a levelled enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m; overall diam. c. 65m), though the outline of the outer fosse is clearly visible. It is described in the OS Letters (1839) (O'Flanagan 1930, 16 (6)) as 'the Moat of Powerstown' which suggests that it had a water-filled fosse, no doubt fed from the adjacent river.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 February 2022

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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