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Enclosure

Blessington, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Blessington, 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
Blessington
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52861, -7.05176
SMR number
KK029-019----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the NW base of Saddle Hill with a river c. 50m to the S, flowing eastward. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 274), In Mr. Sheehy’s land, in Blessington, is a great “raw,” or rath [KK028-036----] … East of this, at the base of Saddle Hill, and also in Mr. Sheehy’s land, is another very large circular “raw.”. It is indicated as a roughly circular field (diam. c. 66m) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with no enclosing element in the NW quadrant. On the later 1900-01 revision a field boundary is indicated running NE-SW across the perimeter of the NW quadrant. On satellite imagery (Digitalglobe 2011-13, accessed 8 March 2022) the enclosure is visible as a small grass-covered field with trees and scrub growing on the enclosing element.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 8 March 2022

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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