Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- KK012-027001-
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
A large irregularly shaped enclosure (dims. c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) which is visible as a cropmark (CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971) W of the public road and which may be part of an associated field system. On the aerial photograph the N length seems to extend northeastward by c. 100m E of the road. It encloses a D-shaped enclosure (KK012-027----) which is also visible as a cropmark on the aerial photograph. It is not visible at ground level.
See attached photograph:
KK012-027001-_01 CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.