Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Belville, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belville
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.73648, -7.43540
- SMR number
- KK009-060----
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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
On a flat, low-lying wet valley floor, with good views across the valley. A ringfort (KK009-059----) is located 70m to the NE. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 27m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) with a field boundary running NW-SE along the NE side. On the 1900 revision of this map it is shown as a similarly sized feature but the hachures suggest that it is a depression rather than an enclosure. According to a field visit in 1994 the enclosure was removed during land reclamation and was not longer visible at ground level, however, it appears to be visible on Digitalglobe imagery (viewed 7 February 2018), though the interior is heavily overgrown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.