Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rathellin, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathellin
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73254, -6.96185
- SMR number
- CW016-093----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH 89; GSI S 435) show cropmark of large circular enclosure with three concentric fosses (est max. diam. c. 100m). See also Rathellin ring-ditch (CW016-007----).
Aerial photograph (GB89.P.03) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by three concentric fosses, with evidence of a plough-levelled mound at centre. Comparable to Fenniscourt Barrow (CW016-064).
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
Bibliography
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.
Barrett , G.F. (2002) 'Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in the Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002., pp. 1-30.
Barrett, G.F. (1999) 'Relevé aérien d'archéologie en Irlande, in Archeologie Aerienne: Actes du colloque du festival international d'archéologie d'Amiens. Revue archaeologie de Picardie special 17/1999. APPAH Ministère de la culture, Amiens et de l'Université de Picardie, pp. 245-52. ISSN 0752-5656 .
Barrett, G.F. (1997) 'Recovering the hidden landscape' in F.H.A. Aalen, K. Whelan and M. Stout (eds.) Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, Cork University Press, pp.664-66. ISSN: 0752-5-6561999.
Barrett, G.F. (1996) 'Archaeological air survey in County Carlow: discovery and destruction' Carloviana, 44, pp. 16-22.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.