Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Woodstock South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodstock South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98875, -7.00211
- SMR number
- KD035-024----
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Shown on 5 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 pasture. Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI S 172) as the cropmark of a fosse completing the W and N sides of a rectangular enclosure (est. c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S), the E and S sides of which are formed by overgrown field boundaries. Also visible on a 1989 aerial photograph (GB89.AI.20) which shows the cropmark of a broad fosse completing a rectangular enclosure. Possibly a moated site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.