Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunnstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunnstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15269, -6.69255
- SMR number
- KD024-051001-
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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
One of three cropmarks (KD024-051001-, KD024-051002- and KD024-051003-) visible on an aerial photograph (N337-6); a circular enclosure is flanked to the NW and NNE by two nearby, smaller circular enclosures. Located in improved pasture and no visible surface trace survives. An electricity ststion stands on or close to the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 July 2012
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.