Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rainestown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rainestown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86288, -6.82647
- SMR number
- CW003-024002-
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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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AG.26) shows cropmark of a complex landscape comprising conjoined circular and rectangular enclosures and an associated field system.
The enclosures extend from NW to SE and consist of a large but incomplete circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses (inner fosse visible as complete on aerial photograph GB20.GL.31) (CW003-024002-); a large circular enclosure defined by two concentric widely spaced fosses (CW003-024003-); an incomplete rectilinear enclosure (with rounded corners) defined by two fosses (CW003-024004-); an incomplete rectangular enclosure defined by two fosses (CW003-024005-); an irregular enclosure defined by a fosse (CW003-026----) and a circular enclosure defined by a fosse (CW003-027----). An associated field system extends S from the enclosures (CW003-024001-).
Bibliography
Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. Forthcoming 2008.
Barrett, G.F. (1999) 'Relevé aérien d'archéologie en Irlande, in Archeologie Aerienne: Actes du colloque du festival international d'archéologie d'Amiens. Revue archaeologie de Picardie special 17/1999. APPAH Ministère de la culture, Amiens et de l'Université de Picardie, pp. 245-52. ISSN 0752-5656 .
Barrett, G.F. (1996) 'Archaeological air survey in County Carlow: discovery and destruction' Carloviana, 44, pp. 16-22.
Barrett, G.F. (1995) 'Recovering the hidden archaeology of Ireland: the impact of aerial survey in the River Barrow valley, 1989-91” in O. Braasch, and G. Wetzel, G. (eds), Aerial Archaeology in eastern and central Europe, 45-59, Proceedings of the Kleinmachnow conference, Brandenburg Museum, Potsdam, pp.45-59. ISBN 3-910011-08-X.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett and Claire Breen for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of revision: 16 March 2012
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