Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Moortown (ballysax East Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moortown (ballysax East Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10852, -6.79403
- SMR number
- KD028-086----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Cropmark of bivallate circular-shaped enclosure visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
See attached image taken from Google Earth
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett
Date of upload: 27 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.