Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Johnstown (Cadamstown ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown (Cadamstown ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39794, -6.87321
- SMR number
- KD004-036----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Visible on an aerial photograph (Karina Holton, SMR file). At the N end of a short, low, pasture ridge, c. 80m E of the N-flowing Togher River, with lower wet, rushy ground immediately to NW-N-NE. A fairly poorly preserved, oval area (int. diams. 31m E-W; 26m N-S) is defined by a low but very broad earthen bank (av. Wth c. 15m; int. H 0.6-1.1m; ext. H 1.3m). The absence of an obviously visible outer fosse suggests the bank-material may have been sourced from the interior of the site. A road runs E-W along the S-limits and a linear 'headland' (Wth 8m) running parallel to the N of the road is fenced off across the enclosing bank with wooden post-and-rail fencing.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.