Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Moorestown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorestown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86530, -6.80012
- SMR number
- CW003-042----
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
A roughly polygonal-shaped enclosure (overall diam. c. 77m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) identified as the cropmark of fosses on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 21 July 2021) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure has straight sides which curve at the angle. This unusual bivallate enclosure is defined by two fosses, c. 4m apart. A curving field boundary, indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and later revision but subsequently levelled, appears as a cropmark running NW-SE along the SW perimeter of the enclosure.
See attached:
CW003-042----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 21 July 2021
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.