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Enclosure

Kilkennybeg, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilkennybeg, County Tipperary South, 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
Kilkennybeg
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.54943, -7.64178
SMR number
TS054-068----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In grassland, situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground in upland region overlooking river valley immediately to NW, higher ground to SE. Located on edge of ravine in a location similar to cliff edge forts. Irregular-shaped area (dims. 40m NE-SW x 32m E-W) roughly rectangular enclosed on two sides by a poorly preserved, much degraded, barely visible earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.2m). Bank only visible from W through N to NE. Depicted as a D-shaped enclosure on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and as a partial enclosure on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Enclosure levelled on the upslope mainly with enclosing element only visible on the downslope. Originally may have been a cliff-edge enclosure (int. diam. 40m) which was partially levelled between 1840 and 1903.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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