Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bennekerry, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bennekerry
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81885, -6.87496
- SMR number
- CW007-157----
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
Aerial photograph (GB95.FV.20) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse; the western quadrant has been destroyed.
A copy of this aerial photograph forms Plate 2.10 in the following:
Barrett, G.F. (2008) 'The archaeology of County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. 31-51
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 15 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.