Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Downings, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Downings
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84547, -6.74433
- SMR number
- CW008-091----
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
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 34m) identified as a cropmark by Faith Bailey and Simon Dowling on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, imagery date 14 July 2018). The enclose is defined by a wide (Wth c. 5m) fosse, with a wide gap (Wth c. 13m) in the N-NE sector which may be an entrance. There is a castle (CW008-013----) c. 130m to the SW.
See attached image:
CW008-091----_01 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.