Designed landscape in Knockrath Big, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Situated on a marked N-facing slope in pasture with commanding views over the Avonmore Valley. Price (1933, 240-41) described the foundations of a 17th-century O'Byrne castle (wi023-036----) with a circular tower at the NE corner standing on the eastern side of a large rectangular enclosure which may have enclosed the formal garden of the castle. No trace now remains apart from the earthworks which consist of two large conjoined terraced enclosures (W enclosure dims. 170m N-S; 63m E-W; E enclosure dims. 105m N-S; 67m E-W). The enclosures are linked by a well-defined causeway.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI023-036001

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