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Linear earthwork

Baurnafea, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, Baurnafea, 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
Baurnafea
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.70956, -7.10323
SMR number
KK015-077----

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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

Running approximately E-W down a steep slope of a N-S valley. A broad deep trench similar to a possible hollow-way (KK015-046----) c. 1.5km to the NW, which runs immediately N of, and parallel to, a townland boundary. This feature is depicted on the 1900 revision of the 6-inch OS map as a fosse which runs c. 80m NE-SW before turning NE-SW for c. 150m. A roadway runs roughly N-S across the earthwork and only the earthwork E of the roadway survives.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 29 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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