Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bray Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98034, -6.92464
- SMR number
- KD035-035----
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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
In level tillage. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDO 45 (1970)) as the cropmark of a broad fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m W-E), possibly a moated site. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD035-034----) c. 40m to the WNW is also visible on the aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 20 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.