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Enclosure

Knocknamase Or Goldengrove, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Knocknamase Or Goldengrove, County Offaly, 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
Knocknamase Or Goldengrove
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.98752, -7.81987
SMR number
OF042-058----

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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 reclaimed pasture. Formerly within Golden Grove demesne but there is no indication of any landscape feature at this location on the 1st (c. 1840) or subsequent revision of the 6-inch OS map. A roughly circular raised area (diam. c. 41m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a wide low bank is visible on satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 30 November 2009 and 26 October 2019), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.

See attached Google Earth images:
OF042-058----_01 (Google Earth imagery date 30 November 2009)
OF042-058----_02 (Google Earth imagery date 26 October 2019)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 April 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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