Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyconra, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconra
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79323, -7.36996
- SMR number
- KK004-022----
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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
In flat terrain on the floor of the Nore river valley, in marshy grassland to W of a stream. Identified on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AYP 8) taken in 1969. A rectangular enclosure enclosed by a slight bank and external fosse with remains of embanked trackway extending NE-SW at S end. Visible on Digital Globe image (viewed 10 May 2016) as a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 65m NW-SE; c. 48m NE-SW).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 May 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.