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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
52.58759, -7.21980
SMR number
KK023-171----

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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 circular enclosure (diam. c. 65m) identified on lidar (Open Topographic Data Viewer, viewed 8 June 2020) and as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 14 September 2019) by Jean-Charles Caillère. It is located in a field immediately S of Rathclogh House and farmyard. A farm building appears to have been built partially on the N fosse of the enclosure. A field boundary runs NE-SW across the S portion of the enclosure. There is another enclosure (KK023-061----) c. 110m to the SSE.

See attached:
KK023-171----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 14 September 2019
KK023-171----_02 Open Topographic Data Viewer, viewed 8 June 2020

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 September 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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