Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Rathellin, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathellin
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73071, -6.95891
- SMR number
- CW016-007----
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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
Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH 89, 90; GB90.AT.15, 30 May 1990) show cropmark of two concentric widely spaced banks each with narrow defining fosses on both sides (max. diam. c. 50m). No visible trace at ground level. Cropmarks are faint but very regular. Treble ring-barrow or ring-ditch site c 100m to NW (CW016-093----).
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.