Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ovidstown (cloncurry Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ovidstown (cloncurry Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ovidstown Rath
- Coordinates
- 53.38473, -6.77067
- SMR number
- KD004-016----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the W end of a pasture ridge with commanding views to N, S and W. A large, approximately circular area (diams. 99m E-W; 92m N-S) is defined by a faint inner earthen bank N-E which is reduced to a scarp elsewhere (H 2m), and by a broad, U-shaped, outer fosse (Wth 6.3-7.9m; D 0.3-1.6m). There are two possible entrances; at the NE and E, each marked more by the shallow nature of the fosse there rather than by causeways proper. The interior rises slightly towards the centre. Visible on a 2005 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto) which shows the perimeter and the S-half of the interior as being overgrown.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.