Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Curtlestown Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curtlestown Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18986, -6.23294
- SMR number
- WI007-077----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a south-facing, forested slope, planted with Scots Pine both internally and on the perimeter. A circular area (diam. c. 30m), defined by an intermittent low earth and stone bank along the E and by a scarp along the S where some large stones may be the remains of facing. Along the W a N-S field fence is built on the perimeter. The interior slopes down from N to S. A forestry track, on the line of an earlier roadway, skirts the N limits of the site. Marked on an estate map of 1816 (part of a set of maps of the Powerscourt Estate, presently held in the Irish Architectural Archive; Pers. comm. Chris Corlett).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 01 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.