Enclosure in Smithstown Upper, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In pasture. There are two enclosures (KK028-009---- and KK028-010----) c. 600m and c. 800m to the NE and NNE respectively. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1948-9 revision as an oval or D-shaped enclosure (overall dims. c. 52m N-S; c. 48m E-W) enclosed by a field boundary, which from SW-N is also a townland boundary. There is scrub growing in the interior and trees around the perimeter (satellite imagery Digitalglobe 2011-2013).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK028-008

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