Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathnashannagh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnashannagh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80567, -6.78499
- SMR number
- CW008-063001-
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 photographs (GB89.AG.34 & 36) show cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure with two rounded corners defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing east. One of two adjacent enclosures (CW008-063). Bordering the Aghglona River, a tributary of the River Burren. Bordering the Aghglona River, a tributary of the River Burren. Position of destroyed ringfort (CW008-041), quarried and backfilled - visible on GB89.AG.36.
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.