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Field system

Gowran Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Gowran Demesne, 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
Gowran Demesne
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62402, -7.06577
SMR number
KK020-061004-

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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

On flat level ground within Gowran demesne. A number of linear cropmarks are visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK080, 9 July 1969) in a field running eastward from a tower house (KK020-060001-) and bawn (KK020-060002-). The cropmarks, running roughly NE-SW, appear to predate the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and relate to an earlier field pattern.

See attached aerial photographs:
KK020-060003-_01 CUCAP AYK080, 9 July 1969

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 1 March 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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