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Road - road/trackway

Blackcastle, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Blackcastle, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Blackcastle
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.89627, -6.91944
SMR number
KD039-044----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)
  • 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

Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BC.34) shows cropmark of two parallel fosses defining a trackway with an estimated visible length of c. 40m. A cartographic representation of this monument in its landscape context is included in the following:

Barrett, G.F. (2006) 'Discovering Kildare's 'hidden' landscapes: archaeological air survey, 1989-2000'. In Nolan, W. and McGrath, T. (eds.), County Kildare: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin, pp. 69-95. ISBN 978-0-906602-57-7.

Barrett , G.F. '(2002) Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989-2000' in The Journal of Irish Archaeology, XI, 2002. 1-30

Barrett, G.F. (2000) 'Lufterkundung und-bilder als Forshungsmethode bei Untersuchungen und Management von Kultulandschaften: ein irisches Beispel' in H. Behm (ed.) Kulturelles Erbe - Landschaften im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zerstörung und Bewahrung, Wittenburg, Germany: Pro Art Verlag, pp. 87-106, ISBN 3-00-006359.

Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett

Date of upload: 13 December 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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