Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Guidenstown South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Guidenstown South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19339, -6.94404
- SMR number
- KD022-002----
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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)
- 1799 · 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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not recorded on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, and shown as a small circular depression on the latest ed. (1939). On a gentle, SE-facing, pasture slope, overlooked by Dunmurry Hill (OD 769 feet) to the NE. A shallow, circular depression (diam 26m; D 0.2-0.3m) is visible at the location. The cropmark of a possible ringbarrow (KD022-028----) is visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 34: 1963) c. 50m to the SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 02 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.