Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycrinnigan, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrinnigan
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49953, -6.87973
- SMR number
- CW026-107----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity 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 the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map the area is depicted as an island surrounded by boggy marshland at the base of the NW slopes of Dranagh Mountain at the S end of the Blackstairs Mountains. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 36m N-S; c. 30m E-W) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling.
See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.