Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gotham, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gotham
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.87863, -6.91283
- SMR number
- KD039-013----
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Shown on 4 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
Shown as an oval enclosure (est. ext. diams. c. 60m N-S; c. 40m E-W) on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map and as a raised oval area on the latest ed. (1909) of the map. In 1972 no visible surface traces survived, apart from a slight rise in the field (SMR file). Visible as a cropmark on Dr. Gillian Barrett's aerial photographs (GB90.BU.03 (1990) and GB91.DW.26 (1991)) which show the monument located in the SE quadrant of a second, much larger enclosure (KD039-013001-). (Barrett 2000, 87-106, Fig.12.; ibid 2002, 1-30, Plate 11; ibid 2006, 69-95, Fig.3.3.)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.