Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Fennor, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fennor
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.13789, -6.94532
- SMR number
- KD027-007----
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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
Shown on the OS 25-inch map (www.osi.ie) as a D-shaped area (est. diam. c. 45m NE-SW) with a straight SW side (est. L c. 65m) enclosed by a bank, with a broad outer fosse or berm (est. max. Wth c. 10m at W), and by a second, outer bank which appears also to be used as a field boundary, and which encloses a rectangular area (est. max. L c. 80m ESE-WNW; Wth c. 65m NNE-SSW). Reported to have been levelled 1954. No visible surface traces survived when inspected in 1972 (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.