What is recorded here

Indicated stands on a southern slope in County Kilkenny, preserving eight distinct enclosures and platforms beside an old church and round tower. The settlement likely grew from a monastic kernel into a medieval borough before withdrawing into the surrounding marsh. Its abandoned tofts still mark the field, suggesting people lived there long enough to shape the land but left without explaining why.

On the brow of a gentle S-facing slope with excellent views of the surrounding countryside except to the W where the ground level rises. It is surrounded by an area of marsh from SW-W-N. Included by Empey (1990, 85) in a list of medieval towns, or settlements with borough status. The settlement appears to have developed from an early medieval monastic site which still retains its church (KK024-062001-), graveyard (KK024-062002-) and round tower (KK024-062004-). The settlement extends to the N and W of the church. It consists of a complex series of at least eight clearly defined rectangular, subcircular and subtriangular enclosures and platforms, and linear embankments, spread out across the field with a particular concentration of remains on the N downslope. The larger rectangular and triangular enclosures most likely represent tofts or crofts while the smaller platforms are probably house sites. See attached photograph: KK024-062007-_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (414) 3, 6 March 2004) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 October 2021

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