Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ardkill, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkill
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36244, -6.93222
- SMR number
- KD008-008002-
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 very gentle S-facing pasture slope, between a tower house (KD008-008001-) and bawn (KD008-008003-) to the NNW and a medieval church (KD008-009001-) and graveyard (KD008-009002-) to the SSE. A large rectangular area (dims. L c. 250m NNW-SSE; Wth c. 100m) is partly subdivided by five, parallel, rectangular terraces (dims. av. L c. 100m ENE-WSW; av. Wth c. 25m) separated by low scarps (H 0.3-0.6m), and was originally accessed to W of centre by a broad sunken trackway (designated KD008-008004-) running N from the church and graveyard (av. Wth 11m; D 0.5m; traceable L c. 100m). Parallel and c. 40m to the E, a second, shorter and much narrower sunken trackway (designated KD008-008005-) also runs N from the church and graveyard (Wth 2m; D 0.5m; traceable L 10m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.