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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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.55737, -7.13597
SMR number
KK028-010----

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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 (KK028-009----) is located c. 170m to the SSW. Indicated as a roughly tear-drop shaped sandpit (dims. c. 67m N-S; c. 46m E-W) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and as a roughly circular enclosure (overall dims. c. 54m N-S; c. 48m E-W) on the 1948-9 revision. On the 25 inch OS map it is depicted as a sub-rectangular area (dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 27m E-W) enclosed by a wide fosse (overall Wth c. 11m; Wth at base c. 4m). The enclosure had been levelled by 1995, as it is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery from that year (OS 1995). A more recent satellite image (Google Earth satellite, imagery date 9 August 2022) shows a roughly circular cropmark, though the N sector is not visible and the edge of the SE sector is very irregular, all indications of disturbance which is likely to be caused by quarrying.

 

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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