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Enclosure

Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Connahy, County Kilkenny, 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
Connahy
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.76532, -7.30127
SMR number
KK010-094002-

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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

Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 194) records that in Connahy townland, 'A half a mile [c. 800m] north-west of the chapel there is a field, three-quarters of an acre in extent, called the Shannavŏhaun, or old hut. A square enclosure here, 53 yards [c. 48.5m] across, with rampart and fosse, is said to have been the site of an ancient monastery. Whenever tilled the enclosure presented all the appearance of a graveyard [KK010-094002-]'. According to local information a field c. 1km NW of St. Coleman's church is still known as 'Shannovohaun' and within this field there is a roughly square enclosure (visible on Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 5 July 2019) which seems to correspond with the enclosure described by Carrigan.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 5 July 2019

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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