Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Baltracey (balraheen Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltracey (balraheen Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35413, -6.69956
- SMR number
- KD010-031----
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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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSI N 470, 472) as a the cropmark of a possible circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 40m), the E limits of which are overlain by, or incorporated into, a later, curving field boundary N-E-SE. On level pasture. The site's limits appear to be defined N-E-SE by a low, hedged, earthen field bank (int. H 0.5m; Wth 5.7m; ext. H 0.6m) with a recut drain (Wth 2.2m; D 1.3m) outside. Elsewhere the enclosing element is not visible at ground level, but there is a faint, low, oval rise (H 0.2-0.4m) in the interior.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.