Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - hollow-way
Ardscull, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardscull
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02318, -6.92227
- SMR number
- KD035-122----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Cropmark of parallel linear earthworks (approx. L. 500m; Wth 11m) running E-W visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Faint outline of cropmarks visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. The linear earthworks may represent the remains of a medieval roadway running towards Ardscull Moat (KD035-010001-) located at E end of linear earthworks. Cropmark of field system to N of roadway and moated site (KD035-121----) in N quadrant of field.
See attached image taken from Google Earth
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett
Date of upload: 27 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.