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Enclosure

Blanchvillespark, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Blanchvillespark, 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
Blanchvillespark
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65266, -7.10836
SMR number
KK020-113----

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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

In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. The enclosure is truncated along the edge of the NE quadrant by a field boundary running NNW-SSE. Another field boundary running NNE-SSW before turning up towards the NW in the W quadrant, crosses the S portion of the enclosure. A medieval church (KK020-025001-) and graveyard (KK020-025002-) are located c. 200m to the SE.

See attached photograph:
KK020-113----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 December 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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