Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Dunmore East, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore East
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dunmore Cover
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70987, -7.26685
- SMR number
- KK014-038----
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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 broad flat terrace of the low hills to the E of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are fair to good views in all directions. Indicated as a large roughly circular (diam. c. 190m) enclosure from E-S-N called 'Dunmore Cover' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, with Dunmore House in the edge of the N quadrant. The curvilinear enclosure is not evident in the NE quadrant where straight field boundaries encroach around the edge. The SW edge of the enclosure is retained in a field boundary but elsewhere the monument has been levelled. The SE edge is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 6 June 2018). According to the landowner when this field was ploughed a wide stoney curvilinear spread (L. c. 160m) could be seen, presumably the remnants of the former bank. The enclosure functioned as a 'cover', an area set aside for game, in 1839, however, the cover may have been utilising an existing earlier enclosure. Within the SE quadrant another curvilinear enclosure (KK014-159----), (diam. c. 70m) which is faintly visible as a cropmark on the satellite imagery (Google Earth, 6 June 2018). This latter enclosure may not be contemporary with the outer enclosure.
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 6 June 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 27 June 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.