Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Crockaun (ballyshannon Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crockaun (ballyshannon Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09827, -6.85854
- SMR number
- KD028-084----
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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
In tillage. Visible on Apple Maps as the cropmarks of two fosses forming a bivallate enclosure comprising a large irregular, penannular outer enclosure (estimated maximum diameter c. 100m) with a possible entrance at NW, containing a smaller, more circular enclosure (estimated maximum diameter c. 30m) (pers. comm. C. Chambers, 25-06-2015).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21-12-2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.