Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Craddockstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craddockstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69537, -7.49622
- SMR number
- KK012-049----
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
On a N-facing slope in rolling grassland. Indicated as a rectangular enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision as an unenclosed rectangular area, orientated NE-SW, with sides widening towards the SW. The enclosure is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (110) 18-19, 22 July 2000) and on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 12 June 2019) as a rectangular area (dims. 26m NNW-SSE; 22m ESE-WNW) defined by a fosse. It is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 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.