Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlebrown Or Clongowes, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlebrown Or Clongowes
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31668, -6.68634
- SMR number
- KD010-032----
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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
Depicted as an enclosed, circular tree copse (est. diam. c. 40m) on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, which was later reduced to a much smaller, unenclosed stand of trees as depicted on the latest ed. (1911) of the map. Subsequent aerial photographs (GSI N469, 470) show the cropmark of the original enclosing element, which is not visible at ground level. On a low E-W pasture ridge. May have been a ringfort which was planted as a landscape feature?
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.