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Moated site

Rossaneny (reade), County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Townland
Rossaneny (reade)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47048, -7.39270
SMR number
KK030-015----

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David 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 lower slope of an E-W ridge E-W, the ground is fairly level to the N but falls away suddenly to stream to the SE. There is a possible moated site (KK030-014----) c. 290m to the SW. Shown on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a hachured subrectangular enclosure (dims. c. 42m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) tapering to the NE surrounded to the N and W by marshy, rough pasture. The land has since been reclaimed and the monument levelled, except for the SW side which is incorporated in an irregular field boundary which appears to follow the line of a stream. If this was a moated site the stream was probably utilised to provide water for the moat.

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KK030-015----_01 Extract from 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 August 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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