Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Smithstown Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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.