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Enclosure

Ennisnag, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ennisnag, 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
Ennisnag
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.56373, -7.24181
SMR number
KK023-078----

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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

On the edge of a ridge, overlooking a river valley which runs N-S immediately to the E, in tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 57m) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1947 revision. Since 1947 the monument has been levelled. The fosse is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (ASIAP (108) 33, 22 July 2000). An inner enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2017). A field boundary runs roughly E-W immediately N of the N sector. The M9 motorway runs NE-SW c. 90m E of the enclosure. There is a large enclosure (KK023-076----) c. 240m to the N and another smaller enclosure (KK023-077----) c. 330m to the NE, both are on the N side of the river valley, and another enclosure (KK023-079----) c. 340m to the E which is on the E side of the river valley.

See attached:
KK023-078----_01 satellite image (Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2017)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 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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