Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballinabranagh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinabranagh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78339, -6.96803
- SMR number
- CW012-213----
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 large semi-circular enclosure (dims. c. 200m NE-SW; c. 117m NW-SE) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure appears to run up to the River Barrow, though the cropmark is not visible to the N and S where there is a road running N-S through the E portion of the monument and there are trees growing between the road and the river. The monument is defined by a curving cropmark of a fosse (Wth c. 4-5) with a slighter concentric inner fosse (gap of c. 20m) and a well-defined roughly concentric outer fosse (gap of c. 20m), though the latter is not as wide as the middle fosse.
See attached image:
CW012-213----_01 Google Earth Pro imagery
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.