Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Blackditch, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackditch
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10172, -6.92740
- SMR number
- KD027-019----
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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
Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as an apparently raised, circular area (est. diam. c. 40m), possibly a ringfort. In an area of gently undulating improved pasture. No visible surface trace.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 31 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.