Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyknock Lower,carrowncashlane (decies Without Drum By., Kilgobnet Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknock Lower,carrowncashlane (decies Without Drum By., Kilgobnet Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.12318, -7.62443
- SMR number
- WA031-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked as a subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 45m E-W) incorporating the townland boundary with Ballyknock Lower S-NW on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a severe S-facing slope. This is a trapezoidal grass-covered area (dims. 42m N-S; 26m E-W at S to 50m E-W at N) defined by a field bank and townland boundary S-NW, a wide straight E-W fosse (Wth 10m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.8m) at N and a scarp (H 0.8-1.3m) NE-S. It may have functioned as a bawn to tower house (WA031-006----) which is just outside the perimeter at the NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 3rd August, 2010. Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.