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Barrow - unclassified

Fenniscourt, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Fenniscourt, 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
Fenniscourt
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Mote
Coordinates
52.68065, -6.97825
SMR number
CW016-064----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 revision: 15 April 2011
Revised by: Claire Breen

Earthen mound with gently sloping sides and small summit (H c. 3m; base diam. c. 18m). Enclosed by cropmarks of four concentric fosses visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP ASW 25-6, BGH 26-8) (max. diam. of outer enclosure c. 70m). A decorated stone (CW016-064001-) was recorded on the NW slope.

Aerial photograph (GB95.FQ.26) shows cropmarks of three concentric fosses surrounding the denuded central cairn of the barrow.

Reference:

Barrett, G.F. 'Early landscapes in County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. Forthcoming 2008.

Nearby in the register

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

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