Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bramblestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bramblestown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59149, -7.07930
- SMR number
- KK024-054----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Overgrown with trees and scrub and surrounded by a small forestry plantation. It is indicated on the 6-inch OS map as being in an area of gorse (furze or whins) with a long narrow pond (L c. 155m; max. Wth c. 12m) c. 100m to the S. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m). There is another enclosure (KK024-055----) immediately to the E and another (KK024-056----) c. 130m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.