Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ballylarkin Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylarkin Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72479, -7.43000
- SMR number
- KK013-014001-
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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, 261), the old road connecting the churches and castles of Killashoolan [KK009-055001- and KK009-056001-] and Ballylarkin [KK013-018001- and KK013-017001-] may still, in part, be traced. It crossed from Killashoolan by Kilrush castle [KK013-012----]; thence over the Nuenna, by a bridge now almost entirely destroyed; thence by the "monument bush," in a field in Ballylarkin, called the "Thur-duv;" and, thence, to Ballylarkin castle and church'. Slight traces of a roadway (L c. 260m) consisting of a level area (Wth 15m) with a low earthen bank on either side are visible 30m N of a ringfort (KK013-016----) running NW-SE before kinking northward towards Nuenna river.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 July 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
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.