Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Skerries North, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skerries North
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04210, -6.93734
- SMR number
- KD031-021----
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
In level improved tillage – local mapped field boundaries and woodland have been removed. Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map, the monument is shown on the latest ed. (1909) as a raised oval area (est. max. diams. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. No visible surface trace survives, but a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM020) shows the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a roughly circular area, and the same cropmark is also visible on a 1990 aerial photograph by Dr. Gillian Barrett (GB90.BC.06).
Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph and on Google Earth imagery taken 28/06/2018.
See attached image of Google Earth photographs taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the two circular enclosures based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 19 February 2019
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.