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
- 52.94078, -6.02268
- SMR number
- WI031-012----
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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 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
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 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.