Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Donore, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donore
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.68077, -6.94060
- SMR number
- CW016-076001-
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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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Circular enclosure with annexe. Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH 91-92, BDO 58) show broad, well-marked cropmark of fosse (est max. diam. c. 50m) with fainter and much narrower, external but concentric fosse (est max. diam. c. 70m), enclosing kidney-shaped annexe at E (est max. diam. if arc complete c 45m). No evidence for causeway. No visible surface traces. 'Circular ring of stones' and 'wall' reported as having been bulldozed c 20 years ago. Possibly a ringfort with annexe.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.