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Enclosure

Ballycooleen, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballycooleen, 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
Ballycooleen
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.84113, -6.19203
SMR number
WI040-066----

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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

Located in a gently undulating landscape (c. 134m OD) characterised by tillage and pastoral farming with a large modern industrial\agricultural complex located adjacent to the NW after c. 70m (July 2021). Landscape slopes downwards gently to the W towards the Avoca River, which is located c. 1.7kms away to the W, and the wooded Vale of Avoca, and the landscape rises gently to the SE towards a highpoint c. 700 away (highpoint c. 218m OD). Site located c. 2.3kms ENE of Ballyarthur House (WI040-015---\ NIAH: 16404004), and c. 2kms ESE of the ruins of a church (WI040-004001-) and associated graveyard (WI040-004002-), and the ruins of a castle (WI040-005----), which are located at Castleadam to the W side of the Avoca River and Vale of Avoca.
This enclosure is faintly visible on Google Earth aerial photograph of the site (July 2021). It consists of a circular feature (ext. dims c. 43.24m N-S x 43.4m E-W) that is defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2.5m to N) that can largely be traced along the entire circuit on the above aerial photograph but is mostly clearly evident to the N, E and SW sides. No definitive evidence for an entrance gap.

Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère

Uploaded on: 30/06/2023

Nearby in the register

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

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