Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballylehaun, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylehaun
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78667, -7.48785
- SMR number
- KK009-003----
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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 a slight valley, surrounded by low rises in rough outcropping land. A roughly rectangular area (dims. c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W on 25-inch OS map) enclosed by low, wide rubble stone wall (Wth 5m; int. and ext. H 0.4m). There is evidence of quarrying in the area surrounding the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.