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Enclosure

Carrighill Lower, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carrighill Lower, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrighill Lower
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.08426, -6.81101
SMR number
KD032-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the S end of a pasture ridge which is scarped sharply along the W side to facilitate a modern farm road. A circular area (diam. c. 50m) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 1-1.2m) NE-S-NW. The interior is slightly raised at the W. A low, square platform (L c. 10m; Wth c. 10m) visible inside the bank at W in 1987 (SMR file) is no longer visible. The monument may possibly have been the site of an encampment connected with the siege of Ballyshannon Castle (KD032-003001-) in 1650?

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 14 October 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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