Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bodal, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bodal
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61536, -7.09623
- SMR number
- KK024-164----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of a low broad hill with good views in all directions (pers. comm. Robert Breen, 20 August 2024). There is a trigonometricl station of 267ft indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map immediately NE of the enclosure. In tillage.
Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1899-1902 revision. A circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 32m; overall diam. c. 45m), visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery, in particular 25 April 2021 and 24 March 2022), identified and reported by Robert Breen. The enclosure is defined by an inner and an outer fosse, c. 6m apart. Enclosures (KK024-026----; KK024-139----) are located c. 760m to the SSE and SW respectively and a henge (KK024-024----) is located c. 1km to the WSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.