Enclosure in Ballyellis, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In marshy land on the flood plain of the River Goul which flows 220m to the SE, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. A small enclosure (diam. c. 16m) is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, it is not depicted on the subsequent 1900 ed. which suggests it was levelled between 1839 and 1900. The monument is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK008-071

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Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.irishexaminer.com
kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
Andy Ryan / 1803 Productions, credited by Kilkenny GAA, kilkennygaa.ie

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