Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrighill Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.