Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycarran Little, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.