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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kilmoney North, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kilmoney North, 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
Kilmoney North
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Glebe
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.22315, -6.94929
SMR number
KD017-018003-

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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

On a gentle N-facing slope in mixed tillage and pasture with a possible medieval field system (KD017-018001-) immediately to the E. A very large and poorly preserved, roughly circular area (est. diam c. 300m) is defined by a low, broad, curving earthen bank (Wth 7.5m; int H 0.9m; ext H 1.2m) SW-W-NNE, which is hedged as a field boundary, and which is reduced to a long, low scarp NNE-SE (L 8m; H 0.5m) which is heavily poached by livestock, especially at NE. An outer fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.3m), recut as a field drain and now silted-up, girdles the bank. At W a short arc of shallow inner fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.2m) is visible. A broad gap (Wth 12m) at NNE may be an enlarged original entrance. According to local tradition, a church (KD017-018004-) once stood in the interior. A later field boundary bank and drain crosses the E portion of the monument NNE-SSW. The SE sector of the interior contains a trapezoidal enclosure which narrows from E to W (int. Wth 46.5m E-W) and has a curving E side, (L 46m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 7.5m; int H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.3m), which overlies the larger enclosure's perimeter. A very shallow outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m) runs along the S. (CUCAP ATA 67 (1967); CUCAP AVR 6 (1968))

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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