Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Walshestown (newbridge Rural Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown (newbridge Rural Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.15930, -6.77813
- SMR number
- KD023-023----
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
In level tillage c. 180m NW of the River Liffey. Named ‘Castle’ and shown on the OS 25-inch map as a roofed rectangular structure (est. L c. 12m ENE-WSW; est. Wth c. 6m) on the S edge of a laneway leading to the river. In 1984, the laneway had been removed and there was no visible surface trace of the monument (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 29 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.