Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Powerstown East, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
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.