Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Balief Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balief Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73212, -7.51658
- SMR number
- KK012-017001-
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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)
- 1868 · 4. 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 a slightly terraced area at break in slope between the steep upper side of Clomantagh hills and more gently sloping land dropping down to valley to the S-SW-W, in reclaimed grassland. There are good views to the N, S and W. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 55m NNW-SSE; c. 52m ENE-WSW) visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP BGN092, 19 July 1971; GB89.Z.20). It is possibly a small field, conjoining with a roughly D-shaped enclosure (KK012-017----) which is to the NW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Date of revised upload: 28 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.