What is recorded here
Shown on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare as a circular enclosure. On a gentle E-facing pasture slope just off the crest of a low hill. A poorly preserved, approximately circular area (diams. 42.2m N-S; 39m E-W) is defined by a low, inner, earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int H c. 0.3m; ext. H c. 0.4m), a fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.2m), and a second, faint, outer earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H c. 0.2m). A shallow field drain crosses the interior (N-S) to E of centre. Faintly visible on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto, 2005).
Shown on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare as a circular enclosure. On a gentle E-facing pasture slope just off the crest of a low hill. A poorly preserved, approximately circular area (diams. 42.2m N-S; 39m E-W) is defined by a low, inner, earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int H c. 0.3m; ext. H c. 0.4m), a fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.2m), and a second, faint, outer earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H c. 0.2m). A shallow field drain…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD004-015
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Paul Mc Carthy, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Jamie Carroll, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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