Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Parks, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 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.