Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilgowan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgowan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Raheens
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08356, -6.76604
- SMR number
- KD032-010----
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
The placename 'Raheens' (“little rath(s) or fort(s)” - Joyce 1996, 77) is marked on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map towards the N end of Kilgowan townland. The land in this general area has been levelled and improved and no visible trace of any monuments survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 14 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.