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Concentric enclosure

Graigrooth, County Kildare, Ireland

The record

Townland
Graigrooth
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.36931, -6.75762
SMR number
KD009-040----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped concentric enclosure (approx. ext. diam. 56m; int. diam. 36m) the N quadrant of which is traversed by a linear ditch cropmark representing the remains of a field boundary depicted on OS 6-inch map visible on Google earth aerial imagery.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan.

See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018.

Date of upload: 5 November 2018

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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