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Enclosure

Boggan, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Boggan, 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
Boggan
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.65426, -7.51326
SMR number
KK017-014----

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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 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the steep NE slopes of a NW-SE valley, in pasture. There are very good views to the NW, SE and SW along and across valley. An oval area (dims. c. 88m NW-SE; c. 61m NE-SW) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval tree plantation and on the 1900 revision as an oval field. This may be the 'fort' referred to by O'Kelly (1985, 28), who states that in Boggan townland, 'there is a fort or moat overlooking the Munster River'. This 'fort' (KK017-007---) may have been an interpretation of this oval feature from the OS 6-inch map. The oval enclosure has since been removed. It appears to have been enclosing a natural hummock.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 6 May 2020

References

O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.

Nearby in the register

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

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