Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Baunmore Or Balleen Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore Or Balleen Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.75151, -7.45526
- SMR number
- KK009-033----
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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)
- 1868 · 4. 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 top of a hill in hilly terrain, with a valley running E-W at base of the hill to the N, in pasture. The views are good to the N and W and extensive to the E and S. A slightly oval ringfort (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 36m E-W) raised above exterior and is defined by a low broad bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.08m; Wth at crest 1m; overall Wth 3.1m) with some evidence of a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.12m) at the base of the N quadrant where there is also loose stone, perhaps from bank collapse and/or field clearance. The bank, which has a high stone content, appears to be largely reduced to scarp, however, it is much obscured by vegetation. There is some erosion in the NE quadrant at the edge of the scarp. The interior is heavily overgrown with brambles, nettles and some hawthorns, though they are mostly growing around the perimeter. A field boundary with a high stone content, running NNE-SSW, transects the NW quadrant. On the 25-inch OS map there is a possible entrance depicted in the NNW sector where it is transected by the field boundary.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.