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Enclosure

Rathclogh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathclogh, 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
Rathclogh
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.59493, -7.23901
SMR number
KK023-046002-

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 45m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (CUCAP AYK059, 9 July 1969; BGG019, 1971; ASIAP (20) 17, 1995) and is also visible on satellite imagery (OS Ortho viewed 11 August 2021). The aerial photographs show a number of cropmark enclosures in the vicinity, KK023-046006- c. 20m to the N; KK023-046003- and KK023-046005- c. 15m and c. 180m to the SE respectively; KK023-046004- c. 140m to the SSE and KK023-046001- c. 70m to the S.

See attached:
KK023-046002-_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK059, 9 July 1969)
KK023-046002-_02 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG019, 16 July 1971)
KK023-046002-_03 aerial photograph (ASIAP (20) 17, 1995)
KK023-046002-_04 satellite image (OS Ortho, viewed 11 August 2021)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 11 August 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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