Enclosure in Castlecolumb, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In tillage. A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 47m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (OSI Ortho satellite imagery, 2004-2006). A field boundary, indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, ran NW-SE across the S sector of the enclosure but has since been levelled. A concentric enclosure, also visible as a cropmark, is located c. 180m to the SW. See attached imagery: KK031-105----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK031-105

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