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Concentric enclosure

Wallslough, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Wallslough, 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
Wallslough
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.60658, -7.19976
SMR number
KK024-007----

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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

Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 73m). A field boundary running roughly E-W along the N side of the monument kink out slightly respecting the curving perimeter of the enclosure. The monument has been levelled but is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (GB96.FW.15, 20 July 1996; ASIAP (18) 7-10, 2 August 1996; ASIAP (105) 15-20, 22 July 2000; ASIAP (273) 18, 2 December 2001). Also visible on these aerial photographs is an inner concentric enclosure (diam. c. 34m) with a well-defined SE-facing entrance. The inner and outer fosse are c.14-20m apart. A large curvilinear enclosure (KK024-123----) is also visible as a cropmark c. 10m to the SW and may be part of an associated field system.

See attached:
KK024-007----_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (18) 9, 2 August 1996)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 21 September 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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