Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Clogheen (quinsborough Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.