Road in Coolgreany, County Kilkenny

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

On an E-facing slope overlooking a N-S valley. Depicted on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a linear feature (L c. 180m) running on the N side of, and parallel to, an approximately E-W townland boundary. This is a broad deep trench (Wth 3m; D 2), possibly a hollow-way.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK015-046

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