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Hilltop enclosure

Constablehill, County Carlow, Ireland

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Townland
Constablehill
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.85193, -6.58197
SMR number
CW004-071----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the summit of Constable Hill, under pasture. A trigonometric station showing a height of 760ft above sea level is indicated on the 1st and revised ed. of the 6-inch OS map within the area of the enclosure, though the enclosure itself is not indicated.
A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 56m), defined by a fosse on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery, 3 April 2013 and 7 June 2013), identified and reported by Ivor Kenny. A field boundary runs roughly NNE-SSW through the eastern portion of the enclosure and the enclosure is less clear E of this field boundary. A bullaun stone (CW004-042----) is located c. 270m SE of the enclosure and there is a cist (CW009-012----) c. 540m to the SE.

See attached imagery:
CW004-071----_01 Google Earth imagery, 3 April 2013
CW004-071----_02 Google Earth imagery, 7 June 2013

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 1 November 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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