Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyspellan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyspellan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76488, -7.51908
- SMR number
- KK008-079----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At or just above transition from the gentle valley slope to steep uplands, in rolling grassland. Indicated as a circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 33m) on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1839). This enclosure is not visible at ground level. Another enclosure (KK008-080----), also levelled, is located c. 70m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.