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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15196, -6.86646
- SMR number
- KD023-106----
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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 (DoD 1999). On a very long, gentle E-facing slope. A small, sub circular area (diams. 11m N-S; 9m E-W) is defined by a broad earthen bank (Wth 6-7m; int H 0.7-1.1m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) and narrow outer fosse (Wth 1.2-2.2m; D 0.5-0.8m). A gap (Wth 3m) in the bank at WNW and a corresponding causeway across the fosse give access to the interior. A second, narrower causeway at NW appears to be a later feature, the result of spoil from a pit dug outside the site being dumped in the fosse. A concrete pill-box is built into the enclosing bank at SW. The site is not recorded on any ed. of the OS 6-inch maps, and appears to be some sort of military earthwork.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.