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Field system

Newpark Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Newpark Upper, 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
Newpark Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.66684, -7.22849
SMR number
KK019-123----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the NE outskirts of Kilkenny City, a river flowing southward into the Nore runs roughly parallel to the E, in tillage. An aerial photograph (GB89.Q.26, 13 July 1989) shows a series of fosses delineating a rectilinear field system running NNE-SSW (visible L c. 280m; Wth between field boundaries c. 50m) with an integral trackway. Two plough-levelled probable barrows (KK019-121---- and KK019-122----) are located within the field system, but are not necessarily contemporaneous. The outer ring road, which was completed in 2007, cuts NNW-SSE through the field system. One of the field boundaries is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (imagery date 13 August 2015).

See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 13 August 2015)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 20 October 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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