Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Booly, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Booly
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57718, -7.33438
- SMR number
- KK023-064----
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated as an irregularly shaped enclosure (max. dims. c. 54m) on the 1st (1839) ed. and as roughly pentagonal on the 1947 revision, with a field boundary running NE-SW along the edge of the NW sector, a field boundary running NE from the NE sector and another running roughly ENE from the SE sector. Only the NW-N-NE perimeter of the monument is retained in a field boundary, the remainder of the enclosure E-S-W has been levelled. The fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021)
KK023-065----_01 satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.