Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Belan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.95350, -6.85465
- SMR number
- KD038-064----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted as a circular grove of trees on first edition of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated as a grove of trees or as a tree ring of post 1700 date on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Belan Lodge located 580m to NE. Of doubtful antiquity, appears to have been a tree ring or landscape feature of post-1700 date. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork. Visible as a cropmark on OSI aerial photographs.
Date of upload: 16 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.