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Enclosure

Kilbrickan, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilbrickan, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilbrickan
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.74432, -6.83951
SMR number
CW013-127----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In tillage with a stream c. 90m to the SE. A roughly trapezoidal enclosure identified as a cropmark by Faith Bailey on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, imagery date 14 July 2018). The enclosure (dims. c. 47m NW-SE on SW side tapering to c. 35m on the NE side; c. 42m NE-SW), with rounded corners, tapers towards the NE. There are faint cropmarks of possible field boundaries running SE from the S (L c. 40m) and E angle (L c. 20m) and running NE-SW from the N and W angle.

See attached image:
CW013-127----_01 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 October 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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