Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballyhacket Lower, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhacket Lower
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.85571, -6.74041
- SMR number
- CW003-041----
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Located c. 150m NE of the River Slaney, in tillage. A large oval enclosure (diam. c. 87m N-S; c. 74m E-W), identified as the cropmark of a fosse/fosses on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 21 July 2021) by Jean-Charles Caillère. In the SW-W sector there are indications that the enclosure was defined by two fosses (Wth of each c. 3m), c. 5m apart.
See attached:
CW003-041----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 21 July 2021
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 December 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.