Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (crannagh By., Ballybeagh Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (crannagh By., Ballybeagh Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67970, -7.53281
- SMR number
- KK012-075----
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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 a slight hill on a valley floor surrounded by wet marshy land. Identified on Google earth satellite imagery (imagery date 3 August 2010), this is likely to be the same feature visited by the ASI in 1987 and described as a circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a low bank (H 0.2m; Wth 1m) planted with thorns and an outer fosse (Wth 2m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.25m). The interior is flat and at the same level as the field. There is no evidence of an entrance. The enclosure is not indicated on either the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or on the 1900 revision, though the latter does indicate a small stand of trees at this location. It is possible that this is a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 17 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.