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Enclosure

Killinure, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Killinure, 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
Killinure
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.77508, -6.64159
SMR number
WI042-056----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 relatively flat location (c. 98m OD) in a gently undulating landscape characterised by tillage and pastoral farming, and c. 520m SE of the summit of a low gently sloping hillock (c. 110m OD). Land slopes gently away to the S towards a small tributary of the Dereen River, which is located c. 150m to S. Sited c. 215m SE of the site of a ringfort (WI042-016----), now levelled (after 1990) but survives as a cropmark, and c. 1.6kms WNW of the remains of St. Finnian’s Church\Aghowle Church (WI042-019001-), an important early ecclesiastical site with numerous related monuments including a high cross and 20+ cross slabs, (WI042-019002 to WI042-019033). This large enclosure is clearly visible on Google Earth aerial photograph of the site (July 2021). It consists of a subcircular feature (ext. dims c. 73.7m N-S x 80.1m E-W) that is defined by a continuous ditch (Wth c. 2.45m to N and c. 2.57 to S) that can largely be traced along the entire circuit on the above aerial photograph apart from a small section to the E (now within a different field – July 2021). No definitive evidence for an entrance gap. There is possibly the remains of a smaller circular enclosure cropmark overlapping the ditch of this large enclosure to the SW quadrant.

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

Uploaded on: 29/06/2023

Nearby in the register

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

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