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Enclosure

Bramblestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Bramblestown, 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
Bramblestown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60010, -7.08147
SMR number
KK024-052----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Indicated as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 26m NW-SE) on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map on the S edge of a band (Wth c. 40m) of rough, scrubby terrain. A quarry (dims. c. 44m NW-SE x c. 20m NNE-SSW) is depicted c. 10m to the SW and another quarry (dims. c. 25m N-S x c. 30m E-W) c. 20m to the SE, immediately E of a field boundary running N-S. By the 1899-1902 revision of the OS 6-inch map the layout of the fields had changed, with the old field boundaries and the enclosure levelled. A field boundary now runs NE-SW through the enclosure, with another field boundary running NW-SE along the NE edge of the enclosure. The NW quadrant of the enclosure is visible as a cropmark of a deep well-defined fosse on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified by Simon Dowling.

See attached:
KK024-052----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 27 January 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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