Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyring Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyring Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.77282, -7.42817
- SMR number
- KK009-023----
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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 terrace on a NE-facing slope in rolling grassland. Enclosure is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision where it is depicted as a sub-circular area (max. dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 44m E-W), the N and E quadrants are straight sides while the SE-S-NW is curving. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.