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Enclosure

Rathtoe, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathtoe, 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
Rathtoe
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathtoe
Latest-edition OS map
Rathtoe
Coordinates
52.78022, -6.80002
SMR number
CW013-010----

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007

Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as circular area enclosed by bank (max. diam. c. 60m) with raised interior (shown by 300ft contour line). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort.

Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.31) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses, with an additional, intervening narrow fosse (possibly a palisade trench). The aerial photograph adds considerable additional detail to the morphology of this monument (Barrett 1989). Enclosure also visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018).

See attached:
CW013-010----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)

References

Barrett, G.F. 1996 Archaeological air survey in County Carlow: discovery and destruction. Carloviana 44, 16-22.

Nearby in the register

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

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