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Enclosure

Smithstown Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Smithstown 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
Smithstown Upper
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.55290, -7.14631
SMR number
KK028-008----

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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

In pasture. There are two enclosures (KK028-009---- and KK028-010----) c. 600m and c. 800m to the NE and NNE respectively. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1948-9 revision as an oval or D-shaped enclosure (overall dims. c. 52m N-S; c. 48m E-W) enclosed by a field boundary, which from SW-N is also a townland boundary. There is scrub growing in the interior and trees around the perimeter (satellite imagery Digitalglobe 2011-2013).

 

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Nearby in the register

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

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