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Enclosure

Bawnhubbamaddereen, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Bawnhubbamaddereen, 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
Bawnhubbamaddereen
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49335, -7.28443
SMR number
KK031-106----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In tillage. It is located immediately NE of a 243ft [74m] trigonometrical station indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. A subtriangular or 'plectrum-shaped' enclosure (dims. c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W narrowing to the N), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.
It is similar in shape to a subtriangular enclosure (LI006-092006-) from Newtown, Co. Limerick which was excavated and found to date from the early medieval period, from the 7th-10th century A.D. Based on the dating evidence it was classified as a ringfort, as is another similarly shaped enclosure (LI012-056----) in Islandduane, Co. Limerick.

See attached imagery:
KK031-104----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery
KK031-104----_02 OSI ortho satellite imagery, 2004-2006

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 14 June 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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