Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballygorteen, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygorteen
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69643, -7.07704
- SMR number
- KK015-048----
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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 E edge of a flat narrow ridge between two N-S valleys with good views in all directions. Visible only on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular wooded feature (diam. c. 20m). A small semicircular enclosure (c. 18m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (int. H 0.3m; ext H. 0.15m) W of largely demolished field wall. Some small-scale quarrying and dumping has been carried out within the enclosure.
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.