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Castle - unclassified

Carrickanearla, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Carrickanearla, 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
Carrickanearla
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Chair of Kildare
Latest-edition OS map
Chair of Kildare
Coordinates
53.20180, -6.92352
SMR number
KD017-028002-

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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

The OSL (Herity 2002, 155 (181)) recorded the local tradition of a castle here, and Fitzgerald (1912-14, 424) quotes an extract from a 1674 survey of the estate of John, 18th Earl of Kildare, 'Carrickanearle contains … a Peace of An old Castle upon a high hill betwixt two mountains … '. On a mound (KD017-028001-) where a shallow, square depression (dims. L 4m; Wth 4m; D 0.6m) occurs on the SW upper surface of the mound, and is retained along its SW side by a low, grassed-over stone wall (Wth 1.1m; H 0.6m). A second portion of collapsed walling (L 5m NNW-SSE; Wth 2.7m; H 0.7m) down-slope immediately to the E may also be part of a ruined castle, other evidence for which is provided by an architectural fragment, a well dressed and chamfered arch-stone lying in the field to the NE of the monument (KD017-028005-).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

References

Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1912-14 The Chair of Kildare. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 7, 424-426.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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