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Enclosure

Curragh (Kildare ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Curragh, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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