Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Knockpatrick, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockpatrick
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91046, -6.78863
- SMR number
- KD040-073----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · 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)
- 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
Situated on S slope of Knockpatrick with burial ground (KD040-01001-), holy well (KD040-01002-) and enclosure (KD040-009----) 115m to N. Cropmark of large kidney-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 80m NE-SW x 45m NW-SE) visible on Google earth aerial imagery.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling
Date of upload: 27 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.