Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilkea Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkea Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93296, -6.88842
- SMR number
- KD037-038003-
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
Visible on an aerial photograph (GB95.FS.29) as a cropmark of a broad fosse which appears superimposed on an earlier enclosure to the N (KD037-038001-). This is probably the oval enclosure shown on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1837).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 18 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.