Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rickardstown Upper (harristown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rickardstown Upper (harristown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09518, -6.99299
- SMR number
- KD027-020----
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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 oval enclosure (est. c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S), with several trees growing on the perimeter. In undulating pasture. The site survives as a circular hollow (diam. c. 20m; D 1m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 31 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.