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Enclosure

Woodsgift, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Woodsgift, 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
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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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)
  • 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

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

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

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