Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lipstown Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lipstown Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05507, -6.82743
- SMR number
- KD032-063----
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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
In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a circular area (est. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a back-filled fosse. A modern field boundary overlies the enclosing fosse NE-E-SSE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 November 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.