Rathtoe, enclosure in County Carlow

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What is recorded here

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). diam. c. 60m) with raised interior (shown by 300ft contour line). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort. Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.31) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses, with an additional, intervening narrow fosse (possibly a palisade trench). The aerial photograph adds considerable additional detail to the morphology of this monument (Barrett 1989). Enclosure also visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). See attached: CW013-010----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018)

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW013-010

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Dylan Moore, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
liam murphy, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Elliot Tucker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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