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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Carrick (Rathernan ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Carrick, 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
Carrick (Rathernan ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Glebe
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.22504, -6.87166
SMR number
KD018-014----

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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

Shown as a circular enclosure and named 'Glebe' (i.e. Parish Church land) on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, and regarded locally as a church site. On the lower, moderately steep, SW-facing slope of the Hill of Allen (OD 670 feet) and c. 70m upslope, to the NW of a holy well (KD018-015----). A large, poorly preserved, roughly circular area (diam. c. 80m) is defined by a low, grassed-over collapsed stone spread (Wth 1.1m at E-6m at NE; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.4m) NE-E-S, and by a low, stone-faced scarp (H 1m) S-W, with no visible trace of an enclosing element elsewhere. The perimeter is completely overgrown with briar and thorn. The interior falls steeply from the N to a narrow, level terrace (Wth 10m) which runs inside the enclosing element S-W. A natural spring emerges from a low bedrock terrace in the E sector.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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