Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Furzehouse, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Furzehouse
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61711, -7.21591
- SMR number
- KK023-114----
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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)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (ASIAP (105) 5-9, 22 July 2000). A larger enclosure (KK023-111----), also visible as a cropmark, appears to be earlier than, and slightly underlies the NE quadrant of this smaller enclosure.
See attached:
KK023-114----_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (105) 6, 22 July 2000)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 September 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.