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Enclosure

Grange Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Grange Upper, 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
Grange Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.61566, -7.01996
SMR number
KK025-004----

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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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Indicated as a small semi-circular quarry (dims. c. 33m NW-SE; c. 12m NE-SW) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and as a semi-circular enclosure of similar dimensions on the 1900 revision. This may be a quarry which was later misinterpreted by cartographers as an enclosure, or it may be an enclosure and the 1st ed. map may be erroneous. A third possibility is that it is an enclosure which was subsequently quarried. The OS maps give no indication of the continuation of the enclosure on the E side of a townland boundary which runs NW-SE along the E/straight side of the semi-circular feature. This area E of the townland boundary is indicated on both editions of the OS maps as a small tree plantation, which is still visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 24 April 2021). Satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018) shows the feature as a dark semi-circular cropmark, which suggests that this is a filled in quarry.

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KK025-004----_01 Satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 February 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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