Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountgale, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountgale
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67120, -7.37447
- SMR number
- KK018-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1868 · 4. 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
On a hilltop, just E of the summit. An enclosure has been pencilled in at this location on the OPW's 1st (1839) OS 6-inch map. A field boundary runs NE-SW immediately N of the enclosure and a townland boundary runs NW-SE along the E edge, kinking in at the SE, possibly reflecting the curve of the enclosure. A faint circular outline (diam. c. 40m) visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 8 March 2010) may indicate the remains of a levelled enclosure.
See attached Google Earth image, 8 March 2010.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.