Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Whitechurch, County Kildare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.