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Enclosure

Ballycomy, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballycomy, 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
Ballycomy
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.78179, -7.21559
SMR number
KK010-022----

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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

In a prominent position on top of a natural hillock, in rolling grassland. There are commanding views in all directions. Depicted on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 28m NW-SE; c. 16m NE-SW), with a field boundary running N-S along the edge of the E portion. On the 1947 revision OS 6-inch map it is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure, the E field boundary forming the straight edge. A roughly circular platform (dims. 17m N-S; 19m E-W; H c. 1.2m). There is an entrance ramp (Wth 6-7m) in the SE sector which, though probably modern, may conceal the original entrance. The fairly flat interior slopes slightly to the W, dropping c. 0.5m from E to W. There is a berm (Wth 2-5m) around the base of the platform at N, S and W. The E sector has been truncated by or incorporated into the N-S running field boundary.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 14 November 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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