Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newrath, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newrath
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00249, -6.08078
- SMR number
- WI025-009001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on level ground in gently undulating terrain. A possible field system, visible as cropmarks on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYJ 67), consisting of part of a large field (est. max. dims. 80m x 70m), with another boundary abutting the NE corner (L c. 80m). Not visible at ground level. The cropmark of a bi-vallate enclosure (WI025-009001-) bisteced by a N-S field boundary is also visible on the aerial photograph. The field system runs off this bi-vallate enclosure (WI025-009001-) with a second enclosure (WI025-008----) 100m to the N.
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: 19 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.