Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockaulin, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaulin
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11911, -6.76989
- SMR number
- KD028-037----
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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
Visible on a 1967 aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 90) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 30m) with a possible entrance gap at W. On a narrow, level terrace on the NE slope of Knockaillinne, in mixed pasture and tillage. No visible surface trace survives. A second, smaller, cropmark site (KD028-036----) lies c. 85m to the NW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 15 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.