Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockbounce, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbounce
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12154, -6.75533
- SMR number
- KD028-039----
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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 as a ‘Rath’ on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare but not recorded on any edition of the subsequent OS mapping. The area was archaeologically trail-trenched in advance of a motorway scheme, but no archaeological material was revealed. Quarrying is known to have taken place previously in this area, and may have resulted in the destruction of the monument? (Keeley 1991, 170)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 18 February 2013
References
Keeley, V.J. 1991 Archaeological investigations on three Kildare Motorway Schemes. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, Vol. 17, 168-71.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.