Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Balief Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balief Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72376, -7.53081
- SMR number
- KK012-015----
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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 the summit of a low hillock on a broad NW-SE terrace along the SW side of Clomaneagh Hills. The field has been reclaimed but the lower slopes of the hillock are wet, in grassland. There are extensive views in all directions. A roughly D-shaped area (max. dims. c. 62m NNE-SSW; c. 77m WNW-ESE) is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision. This appears to be a natural hillock which was enclosed by a field boundary. However, an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN090, 19 July 1971) shows a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) within this D-shaped area. All these features were levelled during reclamation work and the enclosure is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.