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
- 52.79804, -7.31381
- SMR number
- KK005-092----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a gentle S-facing slope just below crest of broad flat-topped hill, in tillage. Aerial photograph (GB90.BM.25) shows cropmark of an irregular enclosure (diam. c. 40-50m) defined by a fosse. A circular enclosure (KK005-084----), also identified as a cropmark, lies immediately to the N. The enclosure is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of revised upload: 30 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.