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Enclosure

Gorteen (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gorteen, 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
Gorteen (Gowran By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60369, -6.99402
SMR number
KK025-051----

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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 roughly rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NNE-SSW; c. 35m ESE-WNW) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. A field boundary runs N-S through the W portion of the enclosure and the monument W of this boundary, being under a different crop, does not show up clearly as a cropmark. There is an outer fosse c. 7m from the inner fosse. There is a possible annexe (dims. C. 38m NW-SE; c. 19m NE-SW) adjoining the NE quadrant and a further curving cropmark running c. 23m northward from the NE angle of the annexe.

See attached photograph:
KK025-051----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 6 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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