Enclosure in Knockrobin, County Wicklow

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

Visible on Google Earth aerial photogrpahy as an overgrown oval area defined by at least two enclosing elements. A pair of earthen banks enclose a pond. An intervening ditch, between the banks, is quite silted up, but was probably water-logged originally. The site is engulfed with tall bull rushes and is quite difficult to appraise on the ground. It appears to be a relatively modern feature, not earlier than the 18th century; possibly a landscape feature associated with duck shooting.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI025-089

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