Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Ballybur Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybur Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59001, -7.29662
- SMR number
- KK023-051----
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
Located c. 60m N of a NW-SE flowing stream. Identified as a, 'spread of charcoal and burnt clay, probably part of a fulacht fiadh' during the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (Sleeman 1983, 365-6).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
References
Sleeman, M. 1983 Sites identified during the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline. In The Archaeology of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline report 1983, 360-72.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.