Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fire house (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.15812, -6.91165
- SMR number
- KD022-029026-
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
Traditionally, a sacred fire was kept alight from St. Brigid’s time down to the 16th century. Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6- inch map, ‘Fire house (Site of)’ is shown on the latest ed. (1939) in a graveyard (KD022-029003-), just N of St. Brigid's Cathedral (KD022-029005-). According to Bradley et al. (1986 Vol 3, 222-3), ‘old sketches’ show the gable of a building, but the only remains in this position today consist of a small rectangular hollow (L 4.44m; Wth 3.48m) enclosed by a low, rubble wall (H 0.5m; Wth 1m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.