Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ballyspellan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyspellan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76153, -7.53519
- SMR number
- KK008-095002-
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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 W-facing slope, in pasture. Listed in the SMR (1987) as 'Road (s)' and in the RMP (1996) as 'Earthwork site'. Identified on an aerial photograph (GSI roll 43, print 26) as a linear feature running NW-SE from the NNW sector of a large enclosure (KK008-095001-). On field inspection in 1987 this feature was not visible at ground level. The feature (Wth c. 18m) was also identified as a cropmark on another aerial photograph (GB91.EU.13, 20 August 1991) consisting of two parallel ditches running for c. 150m. Two field boundaries appear to be running from the N-NE quadrant of the enclosure, probably the remains of a relict field system.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.