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
- 52.79579, -7.36989
- SMR number
- KK004-055----
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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 undulating lowland, in pasture. A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20-25m NW-SE) identified by geophysics (Nicholls 2017 unpublished Geophysical report; Deery and Crowley 2017 unpublished EIS) carried out in advance of a proposed solar farm. One of a number of enclosures (KK004-043----; KK004-044----; KK004-045----; KK004-047----; KK004-048----; KK004-049----; KK004-050----; KK004-051-; KK004-052----; KK004-053---- and KK004-054----) identified in the vicinity by geophysics. It adjoins a similarly sized rectangular enclosure (KK004-056----) to the E and may be related to the settlement row (KK004-046----) 135m to the S which extends eastward. Within the enclosure is a smaller rectangular structure aligned NE-SW which may be a house. The monument is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 September 2018
References
Nicholls, J. 2017 Ballyragget solar farm geophysical survey report (licence number 17R0041). Unpublished report target archaeological geophysics submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Deery, S. and Crowley, C. 2017 Ballyragget solar PV farm, Ballyconra, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny. Unpublished archaeological, architectural and cultural heritage impact report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.