Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Coolroe, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolroe
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98955, -7.02075
- SMR number
- KD034-022001-
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Shown on 5 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 in 1989 and 1991. Aerial photographs (GB89.X.12 (1989) and GB91.EA.13 (1991)) show the cropmarks of an oval enclosure (KD034-022----) defined by a fosse, abutted at E and N by a possible 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.