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Enclosure

Ballynaboley (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynaboley, 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
Ballynaboley (Gowran By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.60650, -7.11619
SMR number
KK024-023----

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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

In pasture, some scrub in the interior and around the edge. A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a external fosse running along the E side. A field boundary runs NE-SW up to the NW perimeter. Another field boundary runs NW-SE parallel to the E perimeter.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 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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