Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Kilmead, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmead
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.03396, -6.88860
- SMR number
- KD031-028----
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
On a low E-W ridge in tillage. A fairly well-preserved, but totally overgrown, rectangular area (int. 32m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) is defined by a substantial earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; Wth 16m; ext. H over fosse 4.7m) and a broad outer fosse (Wth at base 3.6m; D 1.8m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 09 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.