Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Garryhundon, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryhundon
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.75968, -6.93113
- SMR number
- CW012-096----
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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 photograph (GB89.S.08) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch (one of two adjacent ring-ditches). This is the smallest of the two. Sequence of fosses in adjacent fields. Ring-ditches are often found in association with plough-levelled field boundaries. Detailed mapping needed to clarify whether some may be contemporaneous. The closely spaced parallel linear ditches may also be a plough-levelled field boundary (Barrett 1989).
Bibliography
Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin.. Forthcoming 2008.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.