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Enclosure

Courtnaboghilla, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Courtnaboghilla, 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
Courtnaboghilla
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.60818, -7.03194
SMR number
KK025-003----

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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

A subrectangular enclosure (c. 95m NE-SW; c. 60 NW-SE) hachured on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a straight NW-SE boundary dividing the enclosure in two. It is visible on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, S 303) and on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018), though the SE portion of the bank is only visible as a cropmark, indicating a fosse. Local information records a slightly raised area enclosed by a ‘ditch’ in a field known as the ‘Rath’ field. Human remains (KK025-003001-) were discovered during bulldozing in 1958 when the enclosure was being levelled. Most of the bone was disturbed but some remains were in a supine position, aligned E-W, at a depth of 0.3-0.6m below ground level. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 485)

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KK025-003----_01 satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 24 February 2022

References

Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.

Nearby in the register

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

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