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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Threecastles Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Threecastles Demesne, 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
Threecastles Demesne
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71080, -7.31228
SMR number
KK014-027----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the E end of E-W ridge on the S banks of the River Nore which flows NW-SE c. 150m to the N, in rolling grassland and arable. There are very good views along and across the valley in all directions. Indicated as a circular tree-ring (diam. c. 70m) within Threecastles demesne on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and not indicated on the 1946-7 revision, though a stand of trees are drawn at this location. There is no visible trace of an enclosure at ground level but there is a flat-topped natural hillock. It seems likely that the hillock was used as a small tree plantation on the demesne.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 May 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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