Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Moortown (ballysax East Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moortown (ballysax East Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rath Nua
- Coordinates
- 53.09860, -6.78738
- SMR number
- KD028-053001-
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
A large unenclosed, sub-rectangular graveyard (KD028-052002-) is depicted by a broken line (c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-SSW) on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The N portion is shown to have been enclosed on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map, which also shows the S portion partially enclosed by a bank and named ‘Rath Nua’ (KD028-052001-). Described in 1972 as part of a roughly circular ringfort (diam. 29m) defined by a bank and wide fosse containing traces of a possible church (KD028-052003-). No visible surface trace of the enclosure or possible church survived in 1986 (SMR file), however, an aerial photograph (GB89.AF.29) shows the cropmark of a broad fosse defining a sub-circular area projecting S from the modern graveyard wall. A low earthen bank (H 0.6m; Wth 2.4m) abuts the outer face of the graveyard wall at SE and may be the remains of the enclosing bank noted in 1972.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 22 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.