Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carragh, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carragh
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24232, -6.73175
- SMR number
- KD018-009----
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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
Shown on Longfield's 1813 map (NLI Ms. 21. F. 34 (8)) accompanying a 'Survey … of the Estate of J. Mansfield Esq.' as a circular enclosure named 'Moat'. On level pasture at the top of a moderately steep SE-facing pasture slope in a field that is known locally as 'The Moat Field'. In 1986 a pit was visible in a sand/gravel-pit face 'adjacent to the site' (SMR file), and a large pit is shown immediately to the N of the monument on the 1st. Ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. That pit has since been infilled and the area is grassed-over. No visible surface trace of the monument, which may have been a ringfort, survives. (NLI Ms. 16. H. 34 (5))
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.