Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmoney South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmoney South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20402, -6.92025
- SMR number
- KD017-046----
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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 an aerial photograph (GSI N372-1) as the cropmark of a large oval area (est. diams. c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by a fosse. On a short, moderately steep NE-facing pasture slope which forms the SW shoulder of a narrow col, overlooked by Grange Hill c. 500m to the NE, and c. 300m upslope to the NE of the 'Chair of Kildare' (KD017-028001-). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.