Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyragget
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78670, -7.33406
- SMR number
- KK010-001003-
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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
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 89), 'In the garden of Ballyragget Lodge, adjoining the eastern wall of the castle yard [KK010-001002-], there was formerly a large circular area, enclosed by an earthen rampart, and generally called "a rath;" it was levelled about 1850, and the site converted into what is known as "the bower."'. There is no visible trace of this enclosure at ground level. A row of houses, possibly built over the enclosure, run N-S from the entrance road into the bawn. The rear plots of these houses run up to the external face of the E wall of the bawn.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 February 2019
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.