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Field system

Whitechurch, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Whitechurch, 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
Whitechurch
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28866, -6.60514
SMR number
KD014-022003-

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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

Visible on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 76) as a series of low earthworks with curving banks immediately outside, to the NW of, a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD014-022002-) which contains a possible holy well (KD014-022004-), a graveyard (KD014-022005-), a medieval fortified church (KD014-022001-) and a baptismal font (KD014-022007-). Just off the crest at the E end of a low, E-W pasture ridge. Land improvement has resulted in local field boundaries being removed with some replaced by wire-and-post fencing. No visible surface traces were noted.

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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