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
- 52.68253, -6.95608
- SMR number
- CW016-089----
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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
Visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 31) as cropmark of fosse enclosing circular area (est max. diam. c. 35m). Ring-ditch or ring-barrow. Faint cropmark of second site (CW016-103----) to SW. No visible surface traces. O'Donovan (OSL 1839, 93) mentions: 'I could find no remarkable moat or fort in Donore, from which the name might be said to have been taken. Several raheens in it were levelled.' This reference probably includes some of the Donore sites.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.