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
- 53.06231, -6.90918
- SMR number
- KD031-007----
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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 gentle S-facing pasture slope. Shown on a Map of Boleybeg (sic) in a 1773 Survey of the Manor of Fontstown, County Kildare by Scale (NLI 21 F.11) as a square enclosure surrounded by trees. Possibly a moated site, but not recorded on any editions of the OS 6 or 25-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives. Scale’s map records a second similar site (KD031-008----) some 1200m to the ENE.
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.