Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Fonthill, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fonthill
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.79285, -6.97261
- SMR number
- CW007-041----
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 35) shows subrectangular area enclosed by cropmarks of two concentric fosses and substantial bank (est max. dims. c. 90m N-S x c. 60m E-W). Viewed from S, site appears to rise very slightly but there are no other visible indications. Does not appear to be either ring-barrow or ringfort.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.