Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmacahill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacahill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67364, -7.02885
- SMR number
- KK021-050----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 roughly circular (diam. 35m) enclosure, identified by Jean-Charles Caillère, Simon Dowling and James Eoghan as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, imagery date 14 July 2018). A field boundary, indicated on the 1st (1839) and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch map, now levelled, is visible as a cropmark running NE-SW across the S portion of the enclosure.
See attached image:
CW021-050----_01 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.