Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Feighcullen, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feighcullen
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23353, -6.90923
- SMR number
- KD017-009002-
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
Covering a large, roughly rectangular area (dims. L c. 450m NE-SW; Wth c. 350m NW-SE) and occupying the interior and overlying the S perimeter of an older, possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD017-009004-). A series of some 16 rectilinear small and larger fields (dims. L c. 20-c.50m; Wth c. 30-c.60m) are defined by low, intermittent earthen banks (Wth 3-5m; H 0.2-0.5m) and low scarps (H 0.5m) which may be associated with the possible medieval church site (KD017-009001-) immediately to the W (CUCAP (1966) APH084-9; CUCAP (1967) ATA031-2). Earthworks of field system containing cultivation ridges clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 17/01/2020.
See attached oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP APH084-9; ATA031-2) taken 1966 and 1967 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 21 July 2021
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.