Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountrice, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrice
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17256, -7.02214
- SMR number
- KD021-012----
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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 an aerial photograph (GSI N 415-6) as the cropmark of a possible penannular enclosure, open towards the NW. In level pasture. Not visible at ground level. A burial (KD021-005----) was discovered c. 80m to the WNW, and the feature is overlooked by a mound (KD021-007----) c. 90m to the NW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 20 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.