Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Glashare, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glashare
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78944, -7.53041
- SMR number
- KK008-020----
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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
In broad rolling grasslands on the floor of the Goul river valley, though well above the flood plain. There are fine views in all directions. A raised oval area (max. dims. c. 76m NE-SW, c. 53m NW-SE tapering to 24m at the NE end), enclosed by slight traces of a low, wide earthen bank (int. H c. 0.1-0.2m; ext. H c. 0.4m) around its perimeter.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.