Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Kilkenny Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkenny Abbey
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48686, -7.81110
- SMR number
- WM023-027----
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
Situated on a low rise, in undulating pasture, with good views from N-E-S. Monument described in 1971 and 1977 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 30.3m E-W; 29.5m N-S) enclosed by a narrow grass-covered earth and stone bank well preserved from E-S-N and is reduced to a scarp from N-E. The bank has several slight disturbance gaps. There is no trace of an external fosse or entrance feature. The interior is N-facing and has traces of cultivation ridges running NE-SW.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.