Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Beaconstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beaconstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93852, -6.91745
- SMR number
- KD037-053----
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 (GB89.R.02) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure, with an entrance facing NE, defined by a fosse.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett
Date of upload: 12 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.