Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilteel Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteel Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23458, -6.52669
- SMR number
- KD020-007008-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight SW-facing slope, in meadow, overlooking the Kilteel complex (KD020-006----, KD020-006001-, KD020-006002- and KD020-007002- to KD020-007012-) across the road to the SE. Visible on aerial photos taken in 1963 (CUCAP AIG064) and 1966 (CUCAP APA056 and API002) and indicated on Manning's interpretative tracing of same included in his Kilteel Church (KD020-007002-) excavation report (1982, 219). Visible as a broad, low, earthen bank (Wth 9-11m; H 0.2-0.3m; traceable L c. 46m NE-SW), with no obvious trace of an associated fosse. May be associated with the preceptory earthworks (KD020-007003-), or, is possibly a continuation of the Pale Boundary (KD020-008----) which runs S and then W to the S of this site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 January 2012
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Manning, C. 1981-2 Excavation at Kilteel Church, Co. Kildare. Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 16, 173-229.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.