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Designed landscape - formal garden

Harristown, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - formal garden, Harristown, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Harristown
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.14050, -6.67603
SMR number
KD029-038002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Immediately S of Harristown Castle (KD024-028003-). Shown on an estate map of c. 1645 (Tickell 1958, ff 320) and on Noble and Keenan's 1752 and Taylor’s 1783 maps of County Kildare. A large rectangular area (c. 240m ENE-WSW; c. 200m N-S) is defined along its N by a low scarp (H 1m), along the E by a broad, low earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; Wth 12m; ext. H 0.4m), and elsewhere by a shallow fosse (Wth 2-3m; D 0.2-0.4m). Internally, an avenue runs NNW-SSE separating the W-third of the interior from the remainder. Well defined at its S end (Wth 3.5m) by two low, broad earthen banks (Wth 7.7-10.5m; int H 0.3-0.8m; ext H 0.4m), the feature fades out towards the NNW. Also at its S end, the avenue forms the W limits of a rectangular area (50m NNW-SSE; 33m ENE-WSW) which is defined by a low scarp (H 0.9m) along the N, a fosse (Wth 1m; D 1.1m) along the E, and a broad, low bank (Wth 12m; int H 0.2m; ext H 1.2m) along the S. An ornamental canal (KD029-038003-) runs SSE from the S limits of these features.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 02 July 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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