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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30567, -6.68906
- SMR number
- KD014-011----
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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 (CUCAP ALV 10; GSI 394. 1965) as the cropmark of the E-half of a probably originally circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 30m). On level pasture at the foot of a steep slope which forms the S end of a N-S ridge, immediately E of the SE-flowing Gollymochy River. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.