Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballyda, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyda
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.56636, -7.24284
- SMR number
- KK023-076----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise at the edge of a small river valley which runs E-W immediately to the S, in pasture. A large roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 100m; int. diam. c. 80m). There is a rectangular annexe (dims. c. 96m E-W; c. 25m N-S) adjoining the N perimeter, the pronounced fosse of which is visible on aerial photographs (GB89.S.20, 13 July 1989; ASIAP (47) 35-7, 11 August 1998; ASIAP (108) 32, 22 July 2000). Another, smaller enclosure (KK023-077----). lies c. 100m to the NE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.