Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Sandfordscourt, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.