Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyhays, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhays
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29979, -6.61037
- SMR number
- KD014-058----
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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AF.11) shows the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; located in close proximity to a ring-ditch (KD014-057----) defined by two concentric fosses. Cropmarks of plough-levelled field boundaries located nearby; chronological relationship uncertain.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett
The attached image is copyright and uploaded courtesy of Dr. Gillian Barrett.
Date of upload: 11 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.