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Enclosure - large enclosure

Kellistown East, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Kellistown East, 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
Kellistown East
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.80227, -6.82736
SMR number
CW008-036005-

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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

In tillage. A large enclosure (diam. c. 107m) defined by a cropmark is visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) and noted on an aerial photograph (GB20.GM.01) as the cropmark of a curved fosse immediately SW of ‘Kilomeel’ burial ground (CW008-036001-). Within the NE quadrant of the large enclosure there is circular enclosure (CW008-036006-).
See attached:
CW008-036006_05 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosures highlighted

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Date of revision: 25 February 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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