Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bawnhubbamaddereen, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnhubbamaddereen
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49335, -7.28443
- SMR number
- KK031-106----
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
In tillage. It is located immediately NE of a 243ft [74m] trigonometrical station indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. A subtriangular or 'plectrum-shaped' enclosure (dims. c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W narrowing to the N), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.
It is similar in shape to a subtriangular enclosure (LI006-092006-) from Newtown, Co. Limerick which was excavated and found to date from the early medieval period, from the 7th-10th century A.D. Based on the dating evidence it was classified as a ringfort, as is another similarly shaped enclosure (LI012-056----) in Islandduane, Co. Limerick.
See attached imagery:
KK031-104----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery
KK031-104----_02 OSI ortho satellite imagery, 2004-2006
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.