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Concentric enclosure

Scart (Gowran By., Bramblestown ED), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Scart, 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
Scart (Gowran By., Bramblestown ED)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58688, -7.07159
SMR number
KK024-153----

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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

In tillage. A circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 60m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling and Edward O'Riordan. There is a concentric outer fosse c. 14m outside the inner fosse. A N-S field boundary, now levelled, skirted the E edge of the outer enclosure.

See attached 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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