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Enclosure - large enclosure

Desart Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Desart 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
Desart Demesne
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.58040, -7.35155
SMR number
KK022-020----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture. A public road runs NNW-SSE along the E side of the enclosure and a field boundary, running NE-SW, possibly cuts across the edge of the NW quadrant. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 389), 'Irish speakers still call Desart by its old name, which they pronounce Lischlooineen, or Lislooineen, that is Lios-Chluainín, the Fort of the Little Cluain or Meadow. The Lios is about a quarter of a mile south of Desart Court. It is circular in shape and about 100 yds. in diameter; and, though partially dismantled, its enclosing earthen rampart can be easily traced. The people now call it a Rath'. The S portion (diam. c. 85m) is indicated on the 1899-1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. Only the S arc (dims. chord c. 73m; sagitta c. 23m) is visible on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 24 May 2021).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 May 2021

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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