Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybit Big, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybit Big
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.85106, -6.70803
- SMR number
- CW003-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 22m) visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Faith Bailey. The enclosure is defined by an inner and outer fosse, c. 3-4m apart.
See attached:
CW003-040----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
CW003-040----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.