Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killhill, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killhill
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24683, -6.57341
- SMR number
- KD020-002----
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
On an E-facing pasture slope in the E sector of a hillfort (KD020-001----). Visible on a 2005 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto) as the crop mark of two possible concentric fosses enclosing a circular area (est. max diam. c. 40m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.