Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Griffinstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Griffinstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57460, -6.95778
- SMR number
- KK025-053----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 62m NE-SW; c. 44m NW-SE) visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The enclosure is visible as an earthwork on Digital Globe imagery (no date) and OS Ortho imagery (no date).
See attached images:
KK025-053----_01 Digital Globe imagery (no date)
KK025-053----_02 OS Ortho imagery (no date)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.