Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Ladytown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ladytown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Watch House
- Coordinates
- 53.20020, -6.73440
- SMR number
- KD023-002002-
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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
At the E edge of an overgrown graveyard (KD023-002001-) which also contains traces of a levelled church (KD023-002----). A small, heavily overgrown, rectangular masonry structure (dims. c. 5.5m NE-SW; c. 3m NW-SE) with a doorway in the NW wall was erected, probably in the 19th-century, as a watch-house to protect burials from interference. It appears to incorporate some of the masonry from the levelled church: a large square granite block at the S corner, and a well-dressed chamfered block reused as a lintel-stone.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.