Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathtoe, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathtoe
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77981, -6.80711
- SMR number
- CW013-126----
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 roughly oval enclosure (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 37m E-W) identified as a cropmark by Faith Bailey on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, imagery date 14 July 2018). The cropmark of a field boundary runs E from the SE sector for c. 44m before turning south-eastward. Another field boundary, also visible as a cropmark is visible running S from a slightly larger enclosure (CW013-125----) which is 50m to the NNE.
See attached image:
CW013-126----_01 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.