Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boherhole, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherhole
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.32099, -6.69832
- SMR number
- KD010-037----
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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
On level pasture. The possible W limits of a potentially large circular area (est. diam. c. 200m), through which a road runs N-S, were identified by local historians (Geissel and Horgan 1986, 27-9) and part of a possible enclosing fosse in the SW sector was subsequently archaeologically (Excavation licence no. 98E0550) investigated by Breen (1999, 94-6) in advance of the road's re-alignment . The excavation results were inconclusive, but it was thought, '… plausible that the site represents a ditched enclosure, later altered by use as a gravel pit' (ibid. 95).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.