Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Woodsgift, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodsgift
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71103, -7.51193
- SMR number
- KK012-025008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Identified as the cropmark of parallel ditches, c. 15m apart, extending in a curve from SE-NW for c. 350m, on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971). It is not visible at ground level but is visible on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 29 May 2019). This feature is an 18th/early 19th-century avenue leading to, at the W end, a house called 'Summer Ho[use].' on the 1st (1839) ed. 6-inch OS map, c. 190m NE of Woodsgift House, in an area of woodland and within Woodsgift demesne.
Compiled by: Jean farrelly
Date of upload: 29 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.