Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Curragh (kildare Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (kildare Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18255, -6.89133
- SMR number
- KD022-079----
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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 a very gentle S-facing slope at the N edge of the Little Curragh. Visible on aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A poorly preserved rectangular area (int. dims. L 25.5m N-S; Wth 16.5m) is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) W-N-E, and by a narrow, shallow outer fosse (Wth 0.7m; D 0.1m). Broad, well defined cultivation ridges abut the enclosing element at E and cover the interior. A larger , rectangular field (dims. L 70m E-W; Wth 35m) abuts the enclosure at W and is defined by low earthen bank E-S-W and by a substantial townland boundary bank along the N. That field contains narrower, less well defined cultivation ridges. The enclosure and field may be later features, the result of taking a small portion of ground on the edge of the Curragh into cultivation.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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