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
- 53.06845, -6.90489
- SMR number
- KD031-042----
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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 tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view as the cropmark of a large oval area (est. diams. c. 75m NNW-SSE; c. 60m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a back-filled fosse (pers. comm. P. Reid). The cropmark of a levelled rectangular enclosure abutting the site at ENE may be a later feature.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 November 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.