Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Kilpoole Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpoole Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94395, -6.01633
- SMR number
- WI031-047----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A coastal promontory oriented NW-SE. Traces of a fosse (Wth c. 5m) extending SW-NE at the NW (landward) side visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP, BGN 11, BDJ 77) cutting off an area of c. 1.2 hectares. An enclosure (WI031-012----) lies c. 150m to the S and a large complex of ring-ditches (WI031-040---- to WI031-046----) occupy the field to the S of this.
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.