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Enclosure

Newrath, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Newrath, 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
Newrath
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.27651, -7.13042
SMR number
KK043-098----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

On the edge of a W-facing slope overlooking the floodplain where the River Blackwater flows into the River Suir, in tillage. A roundabout to facilitate the N25 Waterford City Bypass is located c. 80m to the NW. A smaller enclosure (KK043-099----) is located c. 80m to the E. Initially identified during the works on the N25 Waterford City Bypass (Gimson, 2003). On a cropmark image taken by Simon Dowling (aerial image, 29 July 2018), it appears as a somewhat D-shaped enclosure, the straight side of the enclosure running NNE-SSW along the top of the scarp. It is defined by three concentric cropmarks, indicating the monument (int. diam. c. 70m E-W; c. 75m N-S; overall diam. c. 90-100m) was enclosed by three fosses, the inner fosse being much wider and deeper than the outer two.

See attached image by Simon Dowling (29 July 2018):
KK043-098----_01

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 July 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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