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Castle - motte

Powerstown East, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, 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
Hachured
Coordinates
52.60638, -7.01415
SMR number
KK025-008----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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 brow of a N-facing slope with good views from SE-W-NE. A small bowl-shaped flat-topped mound (diam. at top 16.5m; basal diam. c. 30m; H 3.6-4m) defined by a scarp and covered in dense overgrowth to NW and SSW. It is composed of earth and gravel. There is no evidence of a fosse around the base. The ruined church (KK025-007001-) and graveyard (KK025-007003-) is located c. 90m to the NNE.

See attached:
KK025-008----_01 General view from S (photo taken 23 November 1994)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 February 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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