Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Rathcoffey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoffey Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.32945, -6.66709
- SMR number
- KD010-044----
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
Situated on the demesne lands of Rathcoffey House located 225m to NNE. Cropmark of small enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Appears to be the remains of a tree-ring of post 1700 date as it is located on the demesne lands of Rathcoffey House. A small grove of trees is depicted at this location on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Outlined as a small enclosure on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Colin Flynn
Date of upload: 2 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.