Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilpoole Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpoole Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94277, -6.02304
- SMR number
- WI031-011----
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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 to gently undulating sandy ground - now on a golf course. Levelled quadrangular enclosure (dims. c. 40m E-W; 30m N-S) visible as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AVJ 80) described by Price (1967, 435) as having a bank and outer fosse. Not visible at ground level.
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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.