Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballykeelan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykeelan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37941, -6.74984
- SMR number
- KD004-029----
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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
In an area of gently undulating rough pasture. A small, rectangular, earthen platform (dims. L 15m E-W; Wth 12m) is enclosed by a deep, broad fosse (Wth. 7m; D. 2m). It is incorporated into the S-side of a much larger sub-circular area (max. dims. L c. 110m E-W; Wth c. 85m) which is defined by a scarp (H 1m). Murphy and Holton (1999, 104-6) interpret their aerial photograph of the site as showing, 'a moated site, surrounded by a much larger circular moated enclosure', however this morphology would be atypical of moated sites. Visible on a 2005 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1977).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.