Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Carbury, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carbury
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36148, -6.96902
- SMR number
- KD008-001004-
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
Extending to the E, S and W of Carbury castle (KD008-001002-) are low, grassed-over earthworks covering a large rectangular area (dims. L c. 330m E-W; Wth c. 200m N-S), the probable remains of an extensive designed landscape, including rectangular gardens and an avenue (L c. 130m; Wth 9m) leading SSW from the castle and orientated towards the summit of Carbury Hill (OD 407 feet). (CUCAP AHM, 72, 73, 75; AOZ 15)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.