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Enclosure

Kilpoole Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilpoole Upper, 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
Kilpoole Upper
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.94078, -6.02268
SMR number
WI031-012----

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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 fairly level ground. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a fosse visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP, BDJ 77, BGN 11). The site is bounded at the N by a dried-up stream bed and at E by a cliff-edge. A pit is visible on the photographs along the line of the fosse at SE and another fosse extending from the W may indicate a possible annexe. Not visible at ground level. A large complex of ring-ditches (WI031-012001- to WI031-012007- and WI031-046----) occurs in the field to the S of this site and there is a possible promontory fort (WI031-047----) c. 100m to the NE. There are also traces of a double-ditched linear feature visible on the aerial photograph c. 40m to the NW.

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

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

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