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Enclosure

Ballycarran Little, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballycarran Little, 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
Ballycarran Little
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71985, -7.32236
SMR number
KK014-003001-

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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

On the flat low-lying valley floor c. 480m E of the River Nore, in reclaimed pasture and tillage. There are fair to good views across the valley. There is a ring-ditch (KK014-003002-) c. 50m to the NW. A circular area (diam. c. 37m N-S; c. 35m E-W), defined by a wide fosse with a gap at E, showing as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP BGG043, 16 July 1971 and BDI017, 14 July 1970; GB89.V.01, 13 July 1989) and on satellite imagery (Google Earth 28 June 2018). It is not visible at ground level.

See attached:
KK014-003001-_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 28 June 2018)
KK014-003001-_02 CUCAP BGG043, 16 July 1971

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 11 May 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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