Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Woodsgift, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodsgift
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71406, -7.51067
- SMR number
- KK012-025002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the 1900 revision of the 6-inch OS map as a roughly oval area (diam. c. 54m NE-SW; 42m ESE-WNW) planted with trees. It had been levelled by 1971 as it does not appear on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN096, 19 July 1971) taken at that time. There had been a larger tree plantation to the E and when this was cut, a roughly circular area of trees, possibly on a natural rise, c. 40m E of the tree-ring was retained. It is likely that this was visited in 1987 and was confused with the tree-ring, which by then had been levelled. The tree-ring is likely to have been a landscape feature associated with Woodsgift House and demesne.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.