Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmog Or Racecourse, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmog Or Racecourse
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.60641, -7.26655
- SMR number
- KK023-010----
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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)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
Indicated as a sub-circular enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, with a quarry immediately N of, and extending to the edge of the monument and a narrow linear field to the NW, the S boundary of which extends westward from the NW quadrant of the enclosure. The 25-inch OS map indicates a sub-circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a wide outer fosse (total diam. c. 56m) with a field boundary running N-S along the outer edge of the fosse from NNE-E-SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.