Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Tullowbeg, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullowbeg
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79604, -6.74194
- SMR number
- CW008-102----
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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 the grounds of the former country house called ‘St. Austin’s Abbey’ and c. 75m NW of the River Slaney. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 26m) visible as a cropmark on OS Ortho satellite imagery (viewed 21 February 2022), identified and reported by Ruaidhrí O’Maolagáin. This is not indicated on the 1st (c. 1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but is indicated as a tree-ring on the subsequent revision. It appears to be a designed landscape feature contemporary with St. Austin’s Abbey, a French Gothic style country house built c. 1856 and burnt down c. 1921 (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/10400328/saint-austins-abbey-house-tullowbeg-tullow-carlow; viewed 21 February 2022). Another roughly triangular tree-ring is also depicted on the 2nd ed. OS 6-inch map c. 60m to the NE and is also visible as a cropmark.
See attached:
CW008-102----_01 OS Ortho satellite imagery (viewed 21 February 2022)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.