Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Ballyknockan (Idrone West By.), County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknockan (Idrone West By.)
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballyknockan Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dinn Righ or Ballyknockan Moat
- Coordinates
- 52.72867, -6.98092
- SMR number
- CW016-003----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
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
Monument No. HM00318, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 03 February 1960. Very large steep-sided flat-topped mound (H above fosse base at N c. 10m; summit diam. 38-40m) surrounded by large deep fosse (base Wth c. 3.5m) with large external bank except at W (H above base at N 5.7m; at E 3.3m; at S 1.2m). Situated at S end of gravel ridge and junction of two rivers to take maximum advantage of natural topography. Gaps in the bank at N and S probably modern. According to Giraldus Cambrensis, constructed in twelfth century (OKR 1985, 187-8). Price mentions discovery of skulls outside fosse and bank at N (Notebook 28, 1966, 26-9).
Aerial photograph (GB89.W.22) shows 'Dinn Righ' or 'Ballyknockan moat'
References
Price, L. 1928-66 Notebooks. OPW.
Nearby in the register
- Boundary stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.