Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Clogorrow, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogorrow
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02453, -6.97107
- SMR number
- KD035-005----
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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
Indicated as a substantial embanked rectangular enclosure on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map (est. int. dims. L c. 55m N-S; Wth c. 48m) but not recorded on the latest ed.(1939). Darby (1899-1902, 191) describes an area surrounded by, 'an embankment, thickly covered by bushes and trees … . Outside this was a fosse, from ten to twelve yards wide, always full of water… . The only entrance gap was on the south side.' He also records the presence of a cave (possible souterrain, KD035-005001-) in the interior, together with the local tradition that the monument was used as place of refuge by monks from Kilart nunnery (KD031-020001-) and Kilberry church (KD030-005----) and that he had seen spearheads which had been found in an adjacent field. Known locally as 'The Coreally', possibly from the French 'couralé', underground fortification. According to Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 133) the monument ,'… was levelled years ago by a Scotsman named Maxwell.' Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH067 (1970) and BGH 57 (1971)) as the cropmark of a rectangular area defined by a broad fosse with a causewayed entrance midway along the SW side. In level tillage. No obvious visible surface trace survives. Also visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph taken by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13-7-1990 (GB90.BB.34), in which the cropmark of a previously unrecorded enclosure is also visible c. 600m to the NNW (KD031-038----).
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the moated site and nearby enclosure based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 27 November 2013
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Darby, M. 1899-1902, Miscellanea: The Core-ally, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, 3, 191.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1899-1902 Notes: Three disused townland names in the south of the County Kildare. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological and Historical Society 3, 132-3.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.