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Gatehouse

Kilberry, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Gatehouse, Kilberry, 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
Kilberry
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.03421, -7.02502
SMR number
KD030-007001-

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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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 level mixed tillage and pasture, forming the E side of a possible bawn (KD030-007001-), at the E edge of a farmyard some 800m E of the S-flowing River Barrow. A ruined Religious House (KD030-005----), possibly belonging to the Knights Hospitallers, stands c. 40m to the WNW and a church (KD030-006----) and graveyard (KD030-006001-) stand c. 40m to the NNW. A very poorly preserved totally overgrown, rectangular structure (traceable L 14m N-S; Wth 5.8m E-W) is defined by a N gable wall and an E sidewall (av. T 0.95m) built of rubble limestone masonry. A short portion of thick cross-wall (L 2.3m E-W; T 1.9m) sub-divides the structure into a N guard house or chamber, which only survives to one storey in height and which has a blocked loop in its E wall, and a S barrel-vaulted passage way, blocked on E wall face, above which portion of a second storey survives. Traces of an intramural stairs are visible in the internal dividing wall at first floor level, carried on an internal squinch. (Carroll 1892, 111)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 30 September 2013

References

Carroll, The Rev. J. 1892 Remains in Athy and neighbourhood, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 1, 102-112.

Nearby in the register

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

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