Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunmore West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70120, -7.28327
- SMR number
- KK014-052----
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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 top of a NW-SE gravel ridge along the E side of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are fair to good views in all directions. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) delimited by fosse, identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BOD032, 10 July 1973). It is not visible at ground level. There is another enclosure (KK014-051----) c. 80m to the NW.
See attached aerial photograph (CUCAP BOD032, 10 July 1973)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 June 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.