Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Belan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Obelisk
- Coordinates
- 52.96530, -6.83778
- SMR number
- KD038-066----
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
Eagle Obelisk is a fine, well-maintained folly, attributed to Richard Castle, and designed as an eye-catcher to the nearby Belan House to the south-west.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.