Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Lipstown Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lipstown Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04884, -6.81038
- SMR number
- KD032-030003-
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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AF.32) shows cropmark of a complex enclosure incorporating a cross (KD032-030001-) and a possible burial ground (KD032-030002-). A rectilinear enclosure, with rounded corners, incorporates a circular enclosure in the NE segment with a dense positive cropmark suggesting the foundations of a building. An outer fosse runs parallel to the southern boundary of the rectilinear enclosure defining an outer annexe, and two short fosses extend NW from the enclosure. The cross is located close to the inner circular enclosure.
Digital Globe photographic evidence indicates that the cross stands in the S quadrant of a small circular enclosure (approx. diam. 37m) which lies in N quadrant of a larger ecclesiastical enclosure (KD032-030003-) the cropmarks of which are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. The small circular enclosure may represent the enclosing element of a small burial ground (KD032-030001-). The linear cropmark of a possible roadway running E-W into the outer enclosure is visible at NW quadrant.
See attached image of Google Earth photographs taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the two circular enclosures based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 19 February 2019
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1912-14, Narraghmore and the Barons of Norragh. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 7, 242-72.
Barrett, G.F. 2006 Discovering Kildare's 'hidden' landscapes: archaeological air survey, 1989-2000. In Nolan, W. and McGrath, T. (eds.), County Kildare: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin, 69-95.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.