Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Crooket, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crooket
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.89810, -6.89317
- SMR number
- KD039-039----
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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
Aerial photograph (GB89.R.16) shows the cropmark of a large curvilinear enclosure defined by multiple fosses. A complex entrance, comprising four fosses, faces north. A broad outer fosse extends southwards along a ridge forming an outer compound. A staggered entrance leads into this compound from the main enclosure. Overlapping fosses indicate morphological change within the site over time. Three circular pits (KD039-039001-) are aligned with, and just to the S of, the enclosure, but ground investigation would be required to clarify whether they are archaeologically significant.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett
Date of upload: 13 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.