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Enclosure

Parknahown, County Laois, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Parknahown, County Laois, 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
Parknahown
County
Laois
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.81521, -7.49054
SMR number
LA034-060----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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. The arc of a possible circular enclosure (chord L c. 32m; chord H c. 9m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The cropmark is evident as a deep fosse, visible from NW-N-E, with a possible faint portion visible in the W. The enclosure appears to have been truncated by a road which runs roughly E-W through the S portion. Two other enclosures have been identified from cropmarks in the immediate vicinity, one (LA034-023----) is located c. 90m to the SW and the other (LA034-059----) is c. 150m to the SSW.

See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 April 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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