Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Woodsgift, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodsgift
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70612, -7.50626
- SMR number
- KK012-027----
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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
This is not indicated on either the 1st ed. (1839) OS 6-inch map or subsequent 1900 revision, though may have been missed as it was in a large tree plantation. It is referred to as a 'mound' in correspondence relating to a Land Project scheme in 1962 (OPW Correspondence) and was subsequently levelled. It was identified as cropmark on an aerial photograph in 1971 (CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971). It appears as a D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 35m), the E or straight side of the D may have been truncated by an earlier field boundary. The enclosure is within a larger irregularly shaped enclosure (dims. c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) which is visible as a cropmark W of the public road and which may be part of an associated field system (KK012-027001-). On the aerial photograph the N length of this larger enclosure seems to extend northeastward by c. 100m E of the road. It is not visible at ground level.
See attached photograph:
KK012-027----_01 CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.