Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mullycagh Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullycagh Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04783, -6.61800
- SMR number
- WI015-044----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as an 'enclosure' in the SMR (1986) based on cartographic evidence (1st edtion OS six-inch map, 1838) where it is depicted as a hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m). Price (1953, 226) refers to it as 'the oblong fort'. Currently within a forestry plantation.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 21 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.