Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyragget
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79826, -7.32205
- SMR number
- KK005-090----
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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
On the NW edge of a flat ridge in undulating terrain, with ground dropping steeply to a small valley to the N-NW, under tillage. There are good to extensive views in all directions except to the NW where it is limited by a neighbouring hill. Aerial photograph (GB90.BM.23) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of revised upload: 24 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.