Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Killeen (ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ardagh By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64019, -7.61768
- SMR number
- LF020-033----
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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
On the gentle E-facing slope of a low ridge. Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a circular earthwork (c. 47m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank; a small section at W had been dug away. The interior was roughly equally divided by a NE-SW field boundary. The enclosure is now defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1.3m). It has been levelled from S-SSW-SW where it is skirted by a pathway. Possibly an ecclesiastical enclosure as it is known locally as a children's burial ground (LF020-033001-), and a pillar stone (LF020-033002-) and a cross-inscribed stone (LF020-033003-) are associated. (Crawford 1913, 326; 1926, 124-5; English 1971, 147)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.