Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Coolaght, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolaght
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24793, -6.82040
- SMR number
- KD018-037----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Cropmark of large enclosure (approx. diam. 65m NW-SE x 73m NE-SW) intersected at N by a field boundary visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Faint suggestions of an inner enclosure and internal banks forming possible sub-divisions within the enclosure.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey.
Date of upload: 20 November 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.