Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilkeany, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkeany
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26023, -7.66843
- SMR number
- WA005-040001-
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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
Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular feature (dims. c. 23m NE-SW; c. 15-20m NW-SE) and situated in pasture at the bottom of an E-W valley. J. O'Donovan c. 1840 mentions a graveyard in Kilkeany (O'Flanagan 1929, 48), which may have been this location. This was known as 'Cian's Church' and described as a circular enclosure (Power 1952, 246). It is described locally as a small, featureless rectangular area of scrub which was removed c. 1980. It is not visible at ground level.
O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.
Power, P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 27 July 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.