Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Knockevagh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockevagh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.87959, -6.65510
- SMR number
- CW004-063----
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
In tillage. A large oval enclosure (dims. c. 134m NE-SW; max. c. 102m NW-SE tapering to the SW) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Faith Bailey and Simon Dowling. Within the enclosure a stone lamp was recovered during ploughing from an area (c. 15m N-S x c. 10m E-W) of very dark soil. There is an enclosure (CW004-019----) c. 250m to the SE.
See attached:
CW004-063----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
Compiled by: Claire Breen and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 24 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.