Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Courttown East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courttown East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00361, -7.02498
- SMR number
- KD034-008----
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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
One of a dense concentration of cropmarks of levelled monuments identified from several aerial photographic sources: Cambridge University Collection Aerial Photographs (CUCAP), Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), Dr. Gillian Barrett’s Aerial Survey and OSi Orthophotos (KD034-007----, KD034-008----, KD034-009----, KD034-010----, KD034-011----, KD034-0120001-, KD034-012002-, KD034-027----, KD034-034----, KD034-035----, KD034-036----, KD034-039----, KD034-040----, KD034-041----, KD035-015---- and KD035-080----). The majority occupy a roughly rectangular area (c. 650m E-W; c. 350m) in level tillage, with two ‘outliers’ (KD035-0120001- and KD035-012002-) c. 250m to the S, and a third ‘outlier’ (KD034-027----) c. 220m to the NW.
KD034-008---- Visible on a 1973 aerial photograph (CUCAP BOC 69) and on a 1991 aerial photograph GB91.EA.22) as the cropmark of fosse enclosing a roughly circular area (est. max. diam. c. 20m); possibly a ringditch or ringbarrow. No visible surface trace survives. According to the landowner, in very dry weather – the summer of 1995, for example – a “ring” of lighter coloured soil, some 10 yards in diameter, can be seen here.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 26 November
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.