Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Kilkea Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkea Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94239, -6.88684
- SMR number
- KD037-017004-
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Human bones uncovered during ploughing in a field to the S of the castle (KD027-017002-), interpreted by Fitzgerald as the site of a possible battlefield (JKAS 1896, 9).
Date of upload: 14 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.