What is recorded here
Enclosure in Moonhall is a roughly circular earthwork in County Kilkenny, Ireland, about 45 metres north-south and 40 metres east-west. It conjoins another enclosure to the west and a ringfort to the south-east, forming a small cluster of ancient boundaries. A modern field line still kinks around its northern quadrant, as if the land remembers the shape long after people stopped naming it.
A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 40m E-W) visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. Another enclosure (KK020-116---) conjoins to the W and a ringfort (KK020-023----) conjoins to the SE. Though the enclosure is indicated on the 1st ed. OS map, a field boundary, running roughly E-W, kinks to respect the N quadrant of the enclosure.
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 January 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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