Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Grangebeg (gilltown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangebeg (gilltown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08259, -6.67043
- SMR number
- KD033-003----
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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
Straddling the N end of a low narrow N-S pasture ridge. A very large circular area (int. diam.78m; ext diam. 108m) is defined by a low inner earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 2.4m at N-4.9m at E; ext H 1.7m) which has been dug away at S and nearly levelled (H 0.2m) between SW and NW, outside of which is a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 1.7m at N-3m at E; D 0.7m at N-1.6m at E), and by a second, outer earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext H 1m) NW-N-SW. Between SW and NW the monument is abutted by a sunken trapezoidal shaped area (L 65m E-W; Wth at E 50m N-S; Wth at W 26m N-S) which is defined by the monument at its E end, by a scarp (H 1.8m) along its N and S sides, and by a natural hillock at its W end: probably a later feature.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 25 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.