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Enclosure

Balleen Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Balleen Lower, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Balleen Lower
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.74977, -7.43584
SMR number
KK009-124----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 quite a steep NE-facing slope on the NE side of a ridge running SE-NW overlooking a valley running NW-SE, in rough pasture. The view is good N and extensive E but is blocked to the S and W by rising ground. Identified on statellite imagery by Katherine McCormack, this enclosure is not depicted on any OS maps. A slightly oval enclosure (diam. 31m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by low grass-covered stoney bank (int. H 0.5-0.95m; ext. H 0.25-0.65m; Wth at crest 1.1-1.4m; overall Wth 3.3-3.65m) with a slight fosse (Wth 2.3-3.2m; D 0.2-0.35m) visible in the NW quadrant. It is built into the slope of the ridge. The bank is quite denuded in the NE quadrant, is very low but evident from NE-S-SW and is best preserved from SW-W-N. There is a concentration of thistles growing in the interior.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 July 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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