Enclosure in Cloghpook, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

At the NE edge of hills with valleys to N, E and W, in fairly wet rough pasture with a diverted stream. There are good views in all directions. A raised irregular polygonal area (diam. c. 57m; H 1-1.6m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.5-3.5m; D0.3-0.8m), except along the NW and NE sides where it is defined by a stream. The stream runs downslope from the NE angle where there is a ramped, possibly modern, entrance. A roadway runs along the SW side. This may be the location of the unlocated castle (KK011-023001/KK015-033001*) depicted on the Down Survey map (1655-6) and mentioned by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 456), though no features were noted within the raised platform or in the surrounding field.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK015-033

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