Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Whiteswall, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiteswall
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80953, -7.56710
- SMR number
- KK003-008----
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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
On a slightly raised platform in generally low-lying terrain, N of flat bog. A circular area (diam. c. 47m) created by scarping around top of a natural dome-shaped hillock. Indicated as an enclosure on the first (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.