Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boley Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boley Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06854, -6.91108
- SMR number
- KD031-005002-
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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 a SW slope in tillage. Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 18) as the cropmarks of a fosse enclosing a circular area (KD031-005001-) with second fosse enclosing a cresentic-shaped area (est. L c. 80m; av. W c. 25m) 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.