Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Clonmelsh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmelsh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77677, -6.92500
- SMR number
- CW012-182----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photographs (GB95.FR.30 and GB95.FS.12) shows cropmarks of a large irregular enclosure indicative of a field system of uncertain age. A cropmark enclosure is located within the field system, but may not be contemporaneous. A ring-ditch is located just outside the north-western edge of the field system.
A copy of aerial photograph GB95.FR.30 is printed as Fig.2.12 in the following:
Barrett, G.F. (2008) 'The archaeology of County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. 31-51
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 15 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.