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Enclosure

Roundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Roundwood, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Roundwood
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.05396, -6.20012
SMR number
WI018-008----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a very gentle N-facing slope in pasture overlooking Vartry Reservoir. Oval enclosure (dims. 80m NE-SW; 89m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.4-1.2m; ext. H 1.2-2m) with modern external dry stone facing on the partly disturbed NE perimeter. There is an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.2m) at the NW and S with slight traces at the NE. No indication of an entrance or internal features. The NE is disturbed by a farm track which occupies the recut fosse at the NW. A large block of quartz-granite outside the site at the N is known locally as The Mass Rock'.

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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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