Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Whiteleas, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiteleas
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bracked Stones
- Coordinates
- 53.10364, -6.61637
- SMR number
- KD029-032----
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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 gently undulating, wet, rushy pasture. Walshe (1931, 127) describes it as, ‘a ruined stone circle, 26 yards [c. 23.8m] in diameter. Of the fifteen stones still extant, only 6 remain in their original position.’ In 1985, the stone circle was found to have been destroyed, with two large displaced pieces of rock on the site which may originally have formed part of the circle (SMR file). A second stone circle (KD029-023----) stands c. 830m to the NNE in Broadleas Commons townland.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 September 2013
References
Walshe, P.T. 1931 The antiquities of the Dunlavin-Donard district. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 61, 113-41.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.