Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Oldcourt (talbotstown Lower By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcourt (talbotstown Lower By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.17159, -6.47814
- SMR number
- WI005-108----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the steep NW-facing lower slope of Woodend Hill in an area of very rocky unimproved rough pasture. A series of about fifteen rectangular house or hut foundations laid out irregularly along a narrow artificial path rising in a dog-leg across the face of the slope. The largest structures (on the W side) measure up to 11m x 5m (externally) and in this area the layout of the settlement is more regular with four buildings aligned NE-SW in a small terrace. Several of the individual sites are distinguished only by well-defined rectangular terraces with rough blocks of stone edging both the uphill and downslope sides.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 11 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.