Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathrush, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathrush
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rath Brogue
- Coordinates
- 52.76853, -6.79874
- SMR number
- CW013-026----
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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 circular enclosure defined by hachures on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map. Described locally as having int. diam. of c. 28m enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m, max. diam. c. 40m). Levelled, but sometimes visible as cropmark. Possibly a ringfort.
Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.29) shows cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure defined by a fosse (Barrett 1989).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.