Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Kinnafad, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinnafad
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36233, -7.07592
- SMR number
- KD007-001001-
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 level pasture, liable to flood, c. 130m NE of the River Boyne. Running NW from Kinnafad Castle (KD007-001----), a low, denuded and cattle-poached, slightly raised, rectangular area (dims L c. 25m NW-SE; Wth c. 20m) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.4-0.7m) with traces of a shallow, outer fosse (Wth 1.1m; D 0.3m) along the SE side, and may be the remains of a bawn.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.