Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Killeighter, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeighter
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42620, -6.74326
- SMR number
- KD004-031001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a moderately steep N-facing slope in improved pasture. In 1985 a rectangular area (dims. L 46m E-W; traceable Wth 25m) was noted, defined on its E and W sides by broad, shallow fosses (Wth 3m along E, 6m along W; D 0.2-0.5m), by a high (H2m) scarp along the N, and by a graveyard (KD004-031003-) at S (SMR file). Land improvement has resulted in the levelling of the N scarp and the infilling of the fosses whose location is now indicated by an intermittent vegetation band. (CUCAP BDR 32 (1970)).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.