Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Ballon, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballon
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73931, -6.77553
- SMR number
- CW013-124----
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
A large roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 120-140m) encompassing the summit of Ballon Hill. The monument is visible on Bing aerial imagery (identified by Nial O’Neill, Ballon Hill Archaeology Project). The S and SW sector is defined by a field boundary and elsewhere the monument appears to be defined by scarp. A smaller enclosure (CW013-068----) has been identified within this possible hilltop enclosure, off-centre in the NW quadrant (Ballon Hill Archaeology Project). Graves (1852-3, 296), in his article on the Ballon Hill cemetery (CW013-065----), notes that, 'On the summit … were formerly large and curious entrenchments, locally known as "The walls of Troy". These … have from time to time been all carted away by the neighbouring farmers for manure, so that not a trace ... now remains'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 March 2014
References
Graves, J. 1852-3 The pagan cemetery at Ballon Hill, County of Carlow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 2, 295-303.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.