Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldgrange (fontstown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldgrange (fontstown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04053, -6.86629
- SMR number
- KD032-055----
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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
Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13-7-1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BC.09) shows the cropmarks of two conjoined curvilinear enclosures with a smaller lunate enclosure linking the two main enclosures on the southern side. A similar lunate enclosure borders the western enclosure on its northern side. Traces of short linear fosses extending from the enclosures suggest an associated field system.
Compiled by: Gillian Barrett
Date of upload: 12 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.