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Designed landscape feature

Borrismore, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Borrismore, 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
Borrismore
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.73200, -7.55549
SMR number
KK012-005----

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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 a small tree plantation straddling a broad gully on a ridge of high land. There are good views in all directions. Described by Barry (1977, 187) in a corpus of moated sites as, 'Flat platform. Int. Bank, except to east, 4m wide and 2.50m high. Dry moat 3.3m wide and 1.10m deep'. A roughly trapezoidal enclosure (dims. c. 80m NW-SE at W end narrowing to c. 57m NW-SE at E end; c. 69m E-W at N tapering to c. 61m at S) enclosed by a bank (int. H c. 1-1.5m; ext. H 1-1.5m) and fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 1m), though the latter has been infilled on the N and E sides. However, as the interior (D c. 2.5m) undulates with a natural dip in the terrain, much of it is well below the surrounding field level. It is unlikely that this is a moated site and it appears to be designed landscape feature associated with Borrismore House and demesne.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 14 May 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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