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Enclosure

Clara Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Clara 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
Clara Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Knockaunteemeade
Latest-edition OS map
Knockaunteemeade
Coordinates
52.66630, -7.14816
SMR number
KK020-005----

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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

Immediately W of a public road. Named 'Knockaunteemeade' and indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision as a trapezoidal area (diam. c. 56m N-S. c. 31m E-W at the N, tapering to c. 12m at S) defined by scarp. Visible on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 9 November 2020) as being overgrown with trees and scrub. There is a large enclosure (KK020-004----) c. 200m to the NE and another one (KK020-006----) c. 300m to the ENE. A mineral spa well is indicated on the OS maps c. 75m to the SW.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 November 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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