Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Mooreabbey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooreabbey Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12360, -7.05790
- SMR number
- KD026-012----
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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
Near the top of a S-facing slope, in tillage. Visible on a 1970 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDO 42) as the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure, possibly a moated site, several other examples of which (KD026-004----, KD026-008---- and KD026-009----) are recorded in this general area. No visible surface trace.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 24 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.