Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunbell Big, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbell Big
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60649, -7.17560
- SMR number
- KK024-019----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
In tillage. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 38m N-S; c. 30m E-W) indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the revision of 1899-1902. Satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 10 November 2021) shows a trackway running roughly E-W across the N portion of the monument. An enclosure (KK024-018----) with associated field system (KK024-122----) is located c. 250m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.