Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Deerpark Old, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark Old
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66199, -6.70561
- SMR number
- CW020-031----
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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
On E-facing slope immediately N of John's Hill, in the northern hills of the Blackstairs Mountains, in dense vegetation. There is a field system, indicated on the 1st (c. 1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, immediately N and W of the enclosure. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 27m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE at NE, tapering to c. 12m at the SW) identified by Séamus Ó Murchú on Bing satellite imagery (Ó Murchú 2016).
See attached:
CW020-031----_01 Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 21 December 2020
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 December 2020
References
Ó Murchú, S. 2016 The Blackstairs Mountains, south east Ireland: investigating the archaeological potential of an understudied upland landscape. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
- House - fortified house1 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.