Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycocksoost, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycocksoost
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47295, -7.09834
- SMR number
- KK032-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 32m E-W) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) separately by Jean-Charles Caillère, Simon Dowling and Edward O'Riordan. There are traces of an outer fosse, at a distance of c. 7m and concentric with the W-N-NE sectors of the enclosure, which is not as wide or deep as the inner fosse.
See attached photograph:
CW009-046----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.