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Enclosure - large enclosure

Moyle Little, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Moyle Little, 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
Moyle Little
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.80898, -6.85092
SMR number
CW007-180----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

On a ridge overlooking an E-W river valley immediately to the N, in tillage. A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 80-85m), identified as the cropmark of a fosse on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 8 November 2019) by Jean-Charles Caillère. A stream is indicated on the OS 6-inch map flowing N-S along the W edge of the enclosure.

See attached:
CW007-180----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 8 November 2019

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 4 May 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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