Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Clownings (bodenstown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clownings (bodenstown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Puddlehall Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.29129, -6.59943
- SMR number
- KD014-021----
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
In level, improved pasture immediately NE of a small, NW-flowing stream. A rectangular area (int. dims. L 53m NE-SW; Wth 46m) is defined by a low, inner, earthen bank (Wth 1m; int H 0.3m; ext H 1.5m), and a broad, outer fosse (Wth 7.6m; D 1.5m) which has been recut as a field drain along the N and W sides. The drain extends S along the line of a possible leat to join the nearby stream. A second, outer bank along the S appears to be a modern field boundary. Visible with an overgrown bank and fosse on a 2005 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto). (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 60)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1956).
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.