Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybar Lower, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybar Lower
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.79147, -6.92834
- SMR number
- CW007-045----
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 26) shows circular area enclosed by well-developed cropmark of broad bank with external fosse (est max. diam. c. 50m). Possibly a ringfort.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.