Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Decoy pond
Ballyline, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyline
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Decoy
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57671, -7.43962
- SMR number
- KK022-016----
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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
Indicated as 'Old Decoy' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a stream around the perimeter from NW-E-SE and it is indicated as an octagonal field on the 1899-1900 revised edition. The decoy (dims. c. 240m N-S; c. 290m E-W), originally a pond with arm-like projections (pipes) covered with nets into which wild birds are lured and then caught. The decoy would have been part of a demesne landscape, though the associated demesne no longer survives. The Munster River flows roughly E-W c. 350m to the N before turning S where it flows c. 600m to the E. A house indicated on both editions of the 6-inch OS map, c. 150m to the N, may have been the demesne house. The octagonal field boundaries and all the field boundaries which radiated from this on the revised 6-inch OS map have been removed and the field reclaimed. A rectangular tree plantation (dims. c. 260m NE-SW; c. 130m NW-SW) currently occupies the N portion of the former decoy.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 May 2021
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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