Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Aurora, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aurora
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19107, -6.28434
- SMR number
- WI006-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
Situated on an E-facing slope beside the Glencree River. A system of small fields and enclosures covering an area of c. 150m x 150m, visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP 1973, O 170-71 O 94/95). There are three oval or subrectangular enclosures (dims. c. 20m x 15m; 30m x 25m; 55m x 30m), and these are linked by faint traces of field boundaries.
See attached Google Earth aerial image taken 30/05/2009 showing extent of field system and enclosures
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.