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Enclosure

Ballynagappagh (Clane ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynagappagh, 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
Ballynagappagh (Clane ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.30490, -6.71081
SMR number
KD014-009----

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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 long and very gentle S-facing slope in mixed tillage and pasture. A rath (KD014-002----) and two other enclosures (KD014-003----, KD014-004----) run in a SE-line immediately to the S. Aerial photographs (CUCAP AVO 83, 84; AVR 9. 1968) show a very large, sub circular area (est. diams. c. 300m N-S; c. 260m E-W) defined by a curving cropmark along N and ENE, the line of which is continued by a modern field boundary E-SW. A road bisects the monument E-W and farmhouses with extensive outbuildings and yards lie opposite one another in the interior, to the N and S of the road. There is no obvious visible surface trace of the cropmark, but its line is preserved by a hedged earthen bank (Wth 1.8-2.5; int H 0.5m; ext H 1.9m) and external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 1.3m) recut as a field boundary drain E-SW. A gap (Wth 4.3m) with corresponding bridge (Wth 3.8m) at S may be on the site of an original entrance.

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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