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Enclosure

Adamstown Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Adamstown Upper, 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
Adamstown Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70292, -7.44328
SMR number
KK013-156----

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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

In tillage. Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1946-7 revision. A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 60m), the fosse of which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 16 April 2020 and 24 March 2022; Digitalglobe, imagery date 2011-13), identified and reported by Rob O'Hara. The enclosure is slightly D-shaped as the fosse in the NE perimeter appears to be straight (L c. 40m).

See attached imagery:
KK013-156----_01 Google Earth, imagery date 16 April 2020
KK013-156----_02 Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2022

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 April 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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