Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ballintine, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintine
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24766, -6.85923
- SMR number
- KD018-025----
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
Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N438-7) as a series of some half-dozen small rectangular enclosures (est. av. dims L c. 20m; Wth c. 10m) covering a roughly rectangular area (est. dims. L c. 100m E-W; Wth c. 60m). On a gentle W-facing tillage slope. No visible surface traces survive in this ploughed field.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the settlement based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - ornamental lakeunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.