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
- 52.49947, -6.86543
- SMR number
- CW026-108----
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 northern foothills of Dranagh Mountain, a southern outlier of the Blackstairs Mountains, in an area of dense heather cover. An oval enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 35m E-W) identified by Séamus Ó Murchú on Bing satellite imagery (Ó Murchú 2016). Curvilinear banks immediately S and SW of the enclosure may be part of a relict field system (ibid.).
See attached satellite image (Digitalgoble, viewed 22 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 Unpublished PhD thesis, University College Dublin.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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.