Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boley Little, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boley Little
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05917, -6.90938
- SMR number
- KD031-012----
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 a gentle S-facing slope in tillage. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 22) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 40m) with a possible smaller rectangular field attached at S. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD031-011----) lies c. 20m to the N.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 01 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.