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Enclosure

Boley Great, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Boley Great, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Boley Great
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06833, -6.91082
SMR number
KD031-005001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a SW slope in tillage. Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 18) as the cropmarks of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 55m) and a second fosse enclosing a cresentic-shaped area (KD031-005002-) attached to the former at NW. No visible surface traces survive. Similar features (KD031-004001- and KD031-004002-) are visible on an aerial photograph in Rathconnellwood townland.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 01 October 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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