Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ardscull, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardscull
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02225, -6.92588
- SMR number
- KD035-009----
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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 gentle SW-facing tillage slope. Shown on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map as a substantial rectangular enclosure (est. c. 55m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a bank with an external fosse. According to Omurethi (1896, 193-4), it was levelled for top-dressing a holding c. 1890 during which, '… in the north-eastern corner of the rampart [the leveller] came across an unflagged chamber, full of black barley and ashes, of which he drew away twenty-seven cartloads, and used it as manure. To the astonishment of his neighbours no ill effects to him or his have resulted’. Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP ASU 83 (1967) and BOC 60 (1973)) as the cropmark of a broad fosse enclosing a rectangular area. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 27 November 2013
References
Omurethi 1896 The Moat of Ardscull. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 11, 186-93.
Nearby in the register
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.