Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tornant Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tornant Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05077, -6.70221
- SMR number
- WI015-032----
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4 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as an 'enclosure' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'enclosure' in the RMP (1995). O'Donovan (1838-40, 177) refers to 'two small raths partly defaced in the N side' of this townland. Depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1st Edition OS 6-inch map (1838). On a gentle N/NW-facing slope bisected by a drainage gully. No visible surface trace.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 20 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.