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Enclosure

Ballymack (Desart),Newtown (Baker), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballymack (Desart), Newtown (Baker), 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
Ballymack (Desart),Newtown (Baker)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56717, -7.33912
SMR number
KK023-172----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Identified by Bernice Kelly on a Transport Infrastructure Ireland LiDAR survey carried out along the N76 road. A possible circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), the E half of which is defined by the townland boundary between Ballymack (Desart) and Newtown (Baker) which appears to curve out to respect and possibly incorporate the E edge of the enclosure. On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map a house is depicted within the enclosure in the NE quadrant with an avenue running NE-SW c. 30m southwest-ward from the house, terminating at a field boundary running NW-SE. The house and avenue are not depicted on the subsequent OS 6-inch map revision. An enclosure (KK023-067----) lies c. 300m to the SSW. The W portion has been levelled but the outline is faintly visible on the LiDAR image and on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 1 February 2021).

See attached:
KK023-172----_01 LiDAR image
KK023-172----_02 Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 1 February 2021).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 1 February 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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