Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Powerstown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Powerstown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.77112, -6.93440
- SMR number
- CW012-093----
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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.O.34 and GB89.S.06) shows cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure (with entrance facing east) defined by a fosse. A short internal fosse is attached to outer fosse (Barrett 1989).
Bibliography
Barrett , G.F. (2002) 'Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in the Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002., pp. 1-30.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.