Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymore Eustace West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Eustace West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Coordinates
- 53.12805, -6.62595
- SMR number
- KD029-059----
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
On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this earthwork is depicted as a small wooded grove located in on the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge located 330m to NNE. Bullaun stone (KD029-010----) located 100m to S. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a post-1700 designed landscape feature such as a tree-ring or possibly a ringfort reused as a tree-ring associated with landscaping of the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke.
Date of upload: 16 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.