Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Powerstown East, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.