TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70969, -7.26726
SMR number
KK014-159----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In tillage. A curvilinear enclosure (dims. c. 75m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery dates 21 April 2018; 6 June 2018). It is located within the SE quadrant of a larger circular enclosure (KK014-038----) but may not be contemporary with it.

See attached imagery:
KK014-159----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 21 April 2018
KK014-159----_02 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 6 June 2018

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 27 June 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
See your own family's places on a living map