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Enclosure - large enclosure

Knockevagh, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Knockevagh, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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