Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Palmerstown Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Palmerstown Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24308, -6.62772
- SMR number
- KD019-067----
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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
Discovered by Mr. Brian McCabe, a local historian. Located in a narrow strip of overgrown tree and scrub-covered ground along the W shore of a small lake in Palmerstown Demesne, which has been developed as a golf course. A well-dressed, chamfered limestone arch-stone (L 1.2m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.21m), with parallel tooling on the faces and punch-dressing on the soffit is reused to form the N side of a very low ope (H 1m) in the E gable wall of a small, poorly preserved, ivy clad structure, of which only portions of the N and E gable walls survive (L 7.2m E-W; Wth 4.4m N-S; H 3m), built of heavily mortared, mixed large and small roughly dressed stones. The walls (T 0.46m) are each pierced by a tall ope in pointed, Gothic-arch style with rough, undressed voussoirs, and some tufa is used in the jambs (N wall ope H 2.4m; Wth 0.87m: S wall ope (to the N of the arch stone) H 2.5m; Wth 1.48m). This structure appears to be landscape demesne feature, while the reused arch-stone may have come from Kerdiffstown Church (KD019-006001-) c. 150m to the W.
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.