Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Osberstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Osberstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24594, -6.66621
- SMR number
- KD019-004----
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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
Recorded on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare as circular feature, and shown as an enclosure named 'Moat' on a manuscript map in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms 21.F.35 (1727-1838) Map 43). Not recorded on any edition of the OS 6-inch mapping, the latest ed. of which (1938-9) shows the engine house at Sallins train station on the presumed location of the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.