Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Whitechurch, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitechurch
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28774, -6.60452
- SMR number
- KD014-022002-
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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
Shown on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a long, curving arc of field boundary (est. L c. 200m N-E-SE) which at SE forms the SE limits of a graveyard (KD014-022005-), and contains a possible holy well (KD014-022004-), a medieval fortified church (KD014-022001-) and a baptismal font (KD014-022007-). Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGM 76) which also shows a possible associated field system (KD014-022003-) immediately to the NW. Just off the crest at the E end of a low, E-W pasture ridge. The boundary has been removed and even the graveyard which it enclosed has shrunk to the W. Archaeological test-trenching (Licence No. 00E0708: www.archaeology.ie) and subsequent monitoring of topsoil stripping (Licence No. 00E0708 ext.: www.archaeology.ie) associated with a private development 50-80m away, in the adjoining field to the E, revealed nothing of archaeological significance.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.