Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Burtown Big, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burtown Big
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99419, -6.89350
- SMR number
- KD035-087----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.01) shows cropmark of an irregular curvilinear, kidney-shaped enclosure defined by a fosse. Linear boundaries extending from the enclosure suggest an associated field system.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett
Date of upload: 08 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.