Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Borris Big, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Borris Big
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72026, -7.32326
- SMR number
- KK014-003002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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. 450m E of the River Nore, in reclaimed pasture and tillage. The views are fair to good across the valley. There is a circular enclosure (KK014-003001-) c. 50m to the SE. A small circular area (diam. c. 10m) defined by fosse showing as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG043, 16 July 1971). It is not visible at ground level.
KK014-003002-_01 CUCAP BGG043, 16 July 1971
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.