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Enclosure

Knockanroe North, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Knockanroe North, 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
Knockanroe North
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.55560, -7.13761
SMR number
KK028-009----

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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 tillage. Another enclosure (KK028-010----) is located c. 170m to the NNE. This enclosure is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as roughly circular and on the 1948-9 revision as oval and is visible as a cropmark an aerial photograph in 2001 (ASIAP (273) 27, 2 December 2001). On Google Earth satellite imagery (imagery date 9 August 2022) the cropmark of this oval enclosure (int. dims. c. 50m NNE-SSW; c. 40m ESE-WNW) is very clear, revealing it was defined by a wide fosse (Wth 4.5-5m) with an outer narrow fosse (Wth c. 1-1.5m) and, after a gap of c. 3m, another outer fosse (Wth c. 1-1.5m). The gap between the wide internal fosse and the narrow outer fosse is c. 6m on the E side, extending from c. 9-11m from S to N. There is also the suggestion of a third outer narrow fosse in the NE sector, also at a gap of c. 3m.

 

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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