Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Brackney, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackney
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01100, -7.08366
- SMR number
- KD034-043----
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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 level tillage, c. 60m E of a small S-flowing stream which forms part of the county boundary with County Laois. Visible on an aerial photograph (GB 90.CM.13) as the cropmarks of two narrow, widely spaced fosses enclosing a large rectangular area (est. max. c. 70m E-W; c. 60m N-S) (pers. comm. Dr G. Barrett).
The attached image is copyright and reproduced courtesty of Dr Gillian Barrett.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 03 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Castle - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.