Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Ballylehaun, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylehaun
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78582, -7.48788
- SMR number
- KK009-004----
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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
Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1987). Located in a slight valley, surrounded by low rises in rough outcropping land. There are traces of limestone quarrying in the immediate vicinity. A large house is visible c. 220m to SSW. Visible as an enclosure on oblique air photos taken in 2001 (ASIAP (274) 4, ASIAP (230) 22, ASIAP (274) 10, ASIAP (274) 11). A large, roughly circular area (38m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a stone-faced earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.35m). The perimeter and interior are planted with trees. The interior slopes appreciably from W to E. The bank is irregular, curving in part, and meeting at right-angles in places. Most probably a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.