Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural feature
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15643, -6.90857
- SMR number
- KD022-029069-
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
According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 253-4), a folly, comprising a D-shaped turret and length of wall, incorporates medieval windows and window jambs: two ogee-headed, chamfered limestone windows, one with hollow spandrels, and five incomplete rectangular granite windows; three with chamfered and two with rounded jambs.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 9 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.