Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Baronstown West (feighcullen Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baronstown West (feighcullen Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Glebe
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22095, -6.85611
- SMR number
- KD018-018002-
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
Marked as a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 65m), the NE sector of which acts as a townland boundary, and named 'Glebe' (i.e parish church land) on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. According to Sheil O'Grady (1905, 465), it was, '… a small piece of ground about half an acre in extent enclosed by an old thorn fence …' which contained a burial ground (KD018-018001-). Near the top of a gentle SW-facing, pasture slope. The monument has been levelled and a field boundary shown on both eds. of the OS 6-inch maps running off the site at W has been extended E to cross the interior, to N of centre.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.