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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
52.55571, -7.12889
SMR number
KK028-011----

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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

Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1948-9 revision as a roughly circular enclosure and shown in more detail on the 25 inch OS map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 57m NW-SE), the S and W sides of which are straight and the N and E curvilinear. On 1995 OS satellite imagery the field is shown as being under tillage and the monument has been levelled. A cropmark of the enclosure on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2017) shows the S half of the monument (int. dims. c. 44m NW-SE) enclosed by a wide fosse (Wth c. 4-5m). The northern portion of the monument has been truncated by a circular horse gallops (diam. 180m). The gallops is visible on satellite imagery from 2009 (no image available between 1995 and 2009), it was decommissioned in 2021.

 

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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