Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Rathernan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathernan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24544, -6.83150
- SMR number
- KD018-006003-
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
Near the foot of a short, gentle W-facing pasture slope overlooking poor, wet, rough grazing to the W. Comprises the SE-half (NE-S-SW) of a large, poorly preserved, probably originally circular area (diam c. 90m), defined by a broad, curving, earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2.5m) NE-E-SE, which is hedged as a townland boundary NE-E, and by a curving roadside wall SE-S-SW. A graveyard (KD018-006002-) occupies most of the E half of the interior and contains a church (KD018-006001-) in its S sector.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.