Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Laraghbryan East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laraghbryan East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38242, -6.61407
- SMR number
- KD005-008----
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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 level, improved pasture, c. 130m N of a medieval church (KD005-009002-) and graveyard (KD005-009003-), with an enclosure site (KD005-021----) c. 200m to the E. Indicated as 'Ca. Rs.' (Castle Residence) on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare, but not recorded on the 1st (1838) or current (1939) eds. of the OS 6-inch map. In 1985, some loose dressed stones, a few with mortar attached, (the result of recent dumping according to the landowner), were noted together with some low linear earthworks running N-S across the field and visible on a 1986 aerial photograph (CUCAP APE 8) (SMR file). There is no longer any visible surface trace of these features. However, traces (noted in 1985) of the fosse of a possible enclosure (KD005-021----) do survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.