Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathtoe, County Carlow, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.