What is recorded here

Promontory fort is a roughly triangular ridge in County Kilkenny, bounded by the River Nore on the west and marshy ground on the east and south. A curving ditch marks its northern edge, visible only when crops grow unevenly above buried earth. The site preserves no standing wall, no gate, no hearth, no name for the people who shaped it. It remains a ridge of grass where water and soil exposed a forgotten line.

A roughly triangular flat area of high ground defined by the River Nore on the W side and by a stream and marshy ground along the E and S side, under grass. Aerial photograph (GB89.V.03, 13 July 1989) shows cropmark of a curvilinear fosse delineating the N side of the promontory fort (dims. c. 255m N-S; c. 216m E-W at the N side, tapering to c. 22m at the S point). Portion of the fosse is also visible on an aerial photograph from 1970 (CUCAP BDI018, 14 July 1970). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of upload: 17 June 2020

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