Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Loughanure Commons, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughanure Commons
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Loughanure Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.29519, -6.71304
- SMR number
- KD014-018----
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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
Recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a small, circular area (est. ext. diam. c. 40m) defined by a bank. On low-lying, level, wet pasture. The very poorly preserved monument survives defined by an arc of fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.3m) ENE-S-W, which has been recut as a field drain (Wth 4-5m; D 1.3m) ESE-S-W, and the line of which is visible as a cropmark at NE. A causeway (Wth 4m) lies at E. The N and E sectors of the interior have been dug out (D 0.8m), and the whole interior is heavily poached by livestock.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.