Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Physicianstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Physicianstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54042, -7.45400
- SMR number
- KK026-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Indicated as a circular enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and as an irregular-shaped enclosure on the 1948 revision. According to O'Kelly (1969, 144) in Physicianstown there is a 'rath here is called "the Forth" [fort]'. The enclosure was levelled in 1955 (pers. comm. J. Maher, 1986). It is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m), defined by a fosse, with the cropmark of a small pond or quarry adjoining immediately to the NNW and another, slightly larger one, adjoining immediately to the S. Kings River flows roughly N-S c. 150m to the W.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 May 2022
References
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.