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Enclosure

Parks, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Parks, 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
Parks
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.69091, -7.51517
SMR number
KK012-054001-

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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

On a low E-W ridge in rolling grassland. There is a ring-ditch (KK012-054002-) c. 80m to the WSW. Indicated as a roughly rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 33m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the 1900 revision, suggesting it was levelled between 1839 and 1900. Its depiction as a roughly rectangular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map does not appear to be accurate, as it is visible as a circular cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AOZ067, 13 July 1966) (diam. c. 35-40m) with a smaller circular enclosure (KK012-054004-) within the interior in the SW quadrant. The aerial photograph also shows a linear cropmark of a levelled field boundary (KK012-054003-) running roughly N-S immediately W of the enclosure.

See attached photograph:
KK012-054001-_01 CUCAP AOZ067, 13 July 1966

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 14 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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