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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
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 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

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

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

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