Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybeg Big, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg Big
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.52888, -6.86772
- SMR number
- CW024-036----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Reported locally as 'rath'. Subcircular, slightly angular area (int. dims. 32m N-S, c. 36m E-W) enclosed by field boundaries. In its present form, probably of nineteenth-century date but may reflect earlier circular enclosure.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Rock art (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.