Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ardree,Coneyburrow (Athy Rural ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardree,Coneyburrow (Athy Rural ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97842, -6.97656
- SMR number
- KD035-032001-
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1838 · C. Kildare - Sheet 35 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A borough was established at Ardree before the end of the twelfth century by either Thomas de Flanders or Milo de Stanton. It appears to have dwindled in the fourteenth century, although the population did not disappear entirely. Fitzgerald states that in 1593-4 Sir Piers Fitzjames Fitzgerald and his family were burnt to death in his 'little castle (KD035-032004-) that was but thatched with straw or sedge in his town of Ardree', indicating that there was then at least one fortified house here (JKAS 1899-1902, 431). (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 1, 15-22)
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.