Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Brackagh, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackagh
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.40110, -7.03924
- SMR number
- KD002-005----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as 'Site of Castle' beside a dashed, subrectangular area (est. dims. L c. 30m NE-SW; Wth c. 10m). On a low knoll in level pastureland, with a disused burial ground (KD002-004----) c. 80m to the NE. No visible surface traces survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.