Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Moyle Big, County Carlow, Ireland
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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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
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
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Cremated remainsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.