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Moated site

Ballaghcloneen, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Ballaghcloneen, 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
Ballaghcloneen
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.64021, -7.43812
SMR number
KK018-047----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A trapezoidal-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 64m NW-SE on the NE side tapering to c. 53m on the SW side) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision. When the monument was levelled in 1959 a stone hone was found (Barry 1977, 186). According to the landowner it consisted of a flat platform defined by a bank (H 1m; Wth 2m) and external waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.5m; D c. 1m) (ibid.). This enclosure lies c. 20m NE of a large circular enclosure (KK018-048----) which has also been levelled. The relationship between the monuments is unclear, though physically associated they may not be contemporary, or the trapezoidal enclosure, classified as a moated site by Barry (1977, 186), may have functioned as a bailey for the adjacent enclosure, in which case a ringwork and bailey classification would be more appropriate. Though levelled, the remains of the monument are visible on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 July 2020) and it appears that the circular enclosure has a further outer bank and fosse which abuts the trapezoidal enclosure.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 7 July 2020

References

Barry, T.B. 1977 Medieval moated sites of south-eastern Ireland. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 35. Oxford.

Nearby in the register

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

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