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Enclosure

Gaulstown Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gaulstown Lower, 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
Gaulstown Lower
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68922, -7.40061
SMR number
KK013-080----

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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 level ground on the floor of a valley, in reclaimed grassland. There are fair views along and across the valley. An oval enclosure (diam. c. 35m N-S; c. 31m E-W) is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the 1900 revision, suggesting it was levelled between 1839 and 1900. It is not visible at ground level. An undulating field boundary, running roughly NW-SE, which was erected between 1839 and 1900, appears to run through the S portion of the enclosure. Another enclosure (KK013-081----), now also levelled, is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map c. 30m to the S and is currently S of the 19th-century field boundary.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 March 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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