Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Inch, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inch
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.99631, -6.90938
- SMR number
- KD035-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the crest of a gentle E-facing pasture slope. According to Fitzsymons (1906, 104), ‘This moat, according to the present version of the story, was thrown up over the spot where the two bodies in the plague-shed were consumed. The hawthorns of the ballad are still growing upon it’. The ballad referred to is the Ballad of Oonah More and is associated with Inch Castle (KD035-026----) some 250m to the NW.
A low sub-circular earthen mound (surface diams. 5.2m E-W; 4.3m N-S; H 0.7-1m) is enclosed by a shallow fosse NW-NE and SE-SW (D 0.1m; base Wth 2m; ext diam. N-S 14.8m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 December 2013
References
Fitzsymons, Rev. P. 1906, Ballads and Poems of the County Kildare. Oonah More: a Legend of Inch Castle. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, No. 5, 101-6
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.