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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
Indicated
Coordinates
52.59137, -7.07879
SMR number
KK024-055----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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

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. 90m 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. 38m). There is another enclosure (KK024-055----) immediately to the W and another (KK024-056----) c. 130m to the SW.

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.

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