Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Prumpelstown Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prumpelstown Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.89133, -6.86516
- SMR number
- KD040-018----
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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
Traces of foundations of E and S walls of church, situated within a small slightly raised rectangular graveyard (KD040-018001-) (dims. 23.5m NW-SE x 16.5m NE-SW). Church is referred to in Repertorium Viride (OSL 1837, 38). A circular, perforated font base (KD040-018002-) of granite is used as a headstone. Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 45) shows graveyard located in NW corner of complex of small rectangular fields extending to E, an oval enclosure and traces of two possible trackways.
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.