Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathbride, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbride
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18277, -6.86861
- SMR number
- KD022-125----
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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
Faintly visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (28-6-2018) in level tillage: a square area (L c. 52m; Wth c. 52m) defined by the cropmark of a fosse (Wth 2-3m) with a possible entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) almost midway along the eastern side. A later field boundary runs N-S immediately to the W.
See attached image: KD022-125-----_01 Snip of Google Earth aerial imagery (28-6-2018)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère.
Date of upload: 31 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.