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Enclosure - large enclosure

Sandfordscourt, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Sandfordscourt, 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
Sandfordscourt
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68613, -7.18347
SMR number
KK015-091----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a natural rise, in tillage. Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1900 revision. A large oval enclosure (dims. c. 74m N-S; c. 62m E-W), the fosse of which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps; Google Earth, imagery date 4 March 2022; Maggenie imagery 2013- Geohive), identified and reported by both Jean-Charles Caillère and Miriam Carroll. The image visible on Apple Maps indicates an inner and outer fosse.
A small enclosure (KK015-092----) is located c. 160m to the SSW and another large enclosure (KK015-090----) is located c. 540m to the NW, both also identified as cropmarks.

See attached imagery:
KK015-091----_01 Google Earth, imagery date 4 March 2022
KK015-091----_02 Apple Maps satellite imagery

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 28 June 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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