Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Kilpatrick (Ballybrackan ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (Ballybrackan ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Rath
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10416, -7.03131
- SMR number
- KD026-009----
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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
In gently undulating, well-drained pasture. Shown as a square enclosure and annotated ‘Rath’ on a 1773 map by Scale (NLI 21 F 10 and 29), and similarly recorded, but annotated ‘Fort’, on an 1833 map of the estate of the Marquis of Drogheda by Longfield (NLI Ms. No. 16 F 8). The 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map shows an almost square enclosure (est. L c. 46m NNW-SSE; c. 44m ENE-WSW). No visible surface trace survived in 1986 (SMR file). Although named ‘Site of Rath’ on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, its morphology suggests it may have been a moated site, similar to one (KD026-008----) c. 730m to the W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 23 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.