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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Clogheen (Quinsborough ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Clogheen, 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
Clogheen (Quinsborough ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.17424, -7.07924
SMR number
KD021-001002-

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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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 46) as the faint cropmark of fairly narrow fosse defining a large circular area (est. diam. c. 120m) occupying the upper portion of the W end of a pasture ridge just above the flood plain at a meander in the Black River, a tributary of the Barrow, which flows around the site N-W-S. The cropmark was not visible at ground level in 1986 (SMR file), or on the present visit. A church site (KD021-001003----) and a graveyard (KD021-001004----) lie at the centre of the enclosure; all suggesting the existence of an early ecclesiastical site here (KD021-001005-).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 13 October 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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