Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brownstown Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13310, -6.83205
- SMR number
- KD028-029----
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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
Not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, but shown as an enclosed D-shaped area (diam. c. 30m NW-SE) with a straight NNE-SSW side (L c. 40m) on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map. Visible as tree-covered on a 2010 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.