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Enclosure

Dunmore East, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Dunmore East, 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
Dunmore East
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.71373, -7.26508
SMR number
KK014-037----

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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 gentle S-facing slope in undulating grassland E of the Nore and Dinin rivers and S of the Castlecomer Plateau. There are fair views in all directions. Indicated on the 1946-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map as a sub-square enclosure (dims. c. 57m NE-SW) with roughly straight sides and rounded corners and an outer fosse from NW-N-NNE. A quarry with lime-kilns is indicated adjacent to the NW sector of the enclosure. When visited in 1987 the monument had been levelled and was not visible at ground level. It is visible as cropmark on an aerial photograph (GB89.V.03, 13 July 1989) and on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 13 August 2015).

See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 13 August 2015)

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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