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Enclosure

Dunbell Big, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Dunbell Big, 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
Dunbell Big
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62007, -7.17559
SMR number
KK024-159----

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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

A circular enclosure indicated as ‘A’ on a map published by Prim in 1872-3 and described as, 'Rath on Prospect farm, nearly obliterated (1872-3, 225). Though this enclosure is not indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1899-1902 revision, nor is it visible on satellite imagery, Prim's map does appear to be drawn accurately which suggests that there was an upstanding enclosure at this location. It is, however, also possible that Prim was referring to one of the two enclosures (KK024-013001-; KK024-013002-), identified as cropmarks in 1971, which are located c. 100m to the SE or to another enclosure (KK020-051----) also identified as a cropmark c. 180m to the NE.

See attached:
KK024-159---- Prim's map of 1872-3, 225

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 November 2021

References

Prim, J.G.A. 1872-3 The ogham monuments of Kilkenny, being a letter from Samuel Ferguson, Esq. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 12, 222-38.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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