Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gorteen (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (gowran By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60369, -6.99402
- SMR number
- KK025-051----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity 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
In tillage. A roughly rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NNE-SSW; c. 35m ESE-WNW) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. A field boundary runs N-S through the W portion of the enclosure and the monument W of this boundary, being under a different crop, does not show up clearly as a cropmark. There is an outer fosse c. 7m from the inner fosse. There is a possible annexe (dims. C. 38m NW-SE; c. 19m NE-SW) adjoining the NE quadrant and a further curving cropmark running c. 23m northward from the NE angle of the annexe.
See attached photograph:
KK025-051----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.