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Enclosure - large enclosure

Ballinabranagh, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Ballinabranagh, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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