Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Carrickanearla, County Kildare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.