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Enclosure

Kirwan'S Inch, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kirwan'S Inch, 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
Kirwan'S Inch
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71119, -7.28010
SMR number
KK014-034001-

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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

On a slight flat-topped ridge running N-S, with ground dropping c. 4.5m to the W down to the floor of the Dinin river valley and dropping slightly to the E before rising again, in rolling grassland. The largest (diam. c. 30m) of three monuments, two enclosures (KK014-034001- and KK014-034002-) and a ring-ditch (KK014-034003-), closely associated (c. 20m apart) in a roughly N-S linear alignment. Identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG075, 16 July 1971) with a wide fosse.

See attached aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG075, 16 July 1971)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 2 June 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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