Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Blanchvillespark, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blanchvillespark
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64998, -7.10614
- SMR number
- KK020-118----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A large irregular curvilinear enclosure (dims. c. 240m NE-SW; c. 175m NW-SE) which appears to be encompassing a natural hillock, the latter indicated by a 270 foot contour on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. Identified on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 8 June 2020) and lidar (Open Topographic Data Viewer; 8 June 2020) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure predates the modern field system, with a field boundary running NE-SW through the centre of the enclosure and other field boundaries running NW-SE from the NE-SW boundary. The enclosure may relate to drainage at the base of the hillock. There is a church (KK020-025001-) and graveyard (KK020-025002-) c. 90m to the NE, an enclosure (KK020-113----) c. 220m to the NW and a fulacht fia (KK020-106----) and excavated features (KK020-107----; KK020-108----) c. 250m to the SE.
See attached:
KK020-118----_01 Digitalglobe satellite imagery
KK020-118----_02 Open Topographic Data Viewer, viewed 8 June 2020
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.