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Enclosure

Parsonstown (Windmill Cross ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Parsonstown, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Parsonstown (Windmill Cross ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.34452, -6.91544
SMR number
KD008-016----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a very low knoll surrounded by slightly lower, poor, wet pasture. A fairly well-preserved circular area (int. diam. 23m; ext. diam. 56m) is defined by three, low, concentric earthen banks (Wth 4.2m at W-7.4m at S; H 0.1m at E-1m at S) separated by two shallow fosses (Wth 1m at N-6.4m at W; D 0.5m), with traces of a third, outer fosse (Wth 1.8m;D 0.6m) visible from SSE to SSW. Between E and S the middle and outer banks are very denuded, and from SSE to NNW the outer bank and it's associated inner fosse are no longer visible at ground-level. The interior contains a possible house (KD008-016001-) in the NE sector. The monument was described in 1955 as a ringfort with three fosses and three banks, with an entrance at the NW and with a possible hut site in the interior (SMR file). No obvious visible trace of an entrance survives. Despite the presence of a possible house site, the siting of this monument together with the relatively insubstantial enclosing elements is not typical of ringforts, one of which (KD008-023----) lies c. 100m to the SW. The morphology does suggest a ringbarrow, except for the presence of an outer fosse.

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.

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