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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60716, -6.99880
- SMR number
- KK025-013----
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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
Identified as the cropmark of a roughly square enclosure (overall dims. c. 55m E-W), defined by two fosses, visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL086, 15 July 1968; BGH012, 16 July 1971). On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision the enclosure is not indicated, suggesting it had been levelled by 1839, however, a field boundary is indicated running NE-SW along its E side, kinking out to respect the monument. The aerial photographs show as bivallate enclosure with square sides and rounded corners, which suggests that this is a moated site.
See attached:
KK025-013----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL086, 15 July 1968
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 February 2022
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.