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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Taghadoe, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Taghadoe, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Taghadoe
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.35344, -6.61295
SMR number
KD010-014001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In 1985, a curving field boundary, comprising a slight earthen bank and a shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.4m), was traceable for c. 200m running N from the W end of the graveyard (KD010-014003-) and was interpreted as the possible remains of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (SMR file). This feature is no longer visible at ground level. (CUCAP 1970, BDV 38). However, geophysical survey (M. Byrne Unpublished MA thesis, NUI Maynooth, 2005) revealed the subsurface remains of a possible second, inner enclosure c. 65m N of the round tower (KD010-014002-) in the field named 'Glebe' on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, which presents as a gently curving subsurface feature (L c. 60m E-W).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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