Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Fenniscourt, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fenniscourt
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.67737, -6.97247
- SMR number
- CW016-065----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 revision: 2 February 2012
Revised by: Claire Breen
Aerial photographs (CUCAP ASW 27, GB89.W.16) shows cropmarks of two concentric well-spaced fosses enclosing very small area (est max. diam. of outer fosse c. 30m, est diam. of inner fosse c. 10m). Possibly multiple ring-barrow or ring-ditch. Cropmarks of possible trackways to W (CW016-092----) and to S (CW016-133----).
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.