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Enclosure

Muckalee, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Muckalee, 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
Muckalee
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.75104, -7.19692
SMR number
KK011-034----

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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

On the summit of a broad and relatively flat hilltop, in gently rolling grassland. There are extensive views overlooking valleys in all directions. A rectangular area (dims. c. 66m N-S; c. 80m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (overall Wth 3m; Wth at crest c. 1m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.2-2m) and external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5-0.6m, except on E side Wth 3m; D c. 1.3m). There is an entrance on each side, towards the W end of the N side (Wth 3m), towards the S end of the E side (Wth 2m), towards the E end of the S side (Wth 3m) and near the middle on the W side (Wth 3m). Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. and 1900 revision of 6-inch OS map as a rectangular field. Though this may be a field, it is unusual to have such a regular enclosure amid a patchwork of fields and on the summit of a hill.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 4 February 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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