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Enclosure

Moyle Big, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Moyle Big, 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 Big
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.80777, -6.85639
SMR number
CW007-182----

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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

A stream flows roughly N-S c. 40m to the W of the enclosure, with a roughly parallel meander E of the stream, flowing c. 25m to the W of the enclosure, both visible as cropmarks. In tillage. A roughly irregular pentagonal enclosure (overall diam. c. 56m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a fosse, visible on satellite imagery (OS Ortho, Aerial Premium 2013-2018), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The M9 motorway, including road-take, runs NE-SW c. 10m to the SE. An Early Bronze Age cremation pit (CW017-145----) and an Iron Age metalworking site (CW007-116----), c. 40m to the S and SE respectively, were excavated during the construction of the motorway.

See attached:
CW007-182----_02 OS Ortho, Aerial Premium 2013-2018

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 February 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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