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Recorded monument · KD022-029020 · Co. Kildare

Round tower at Kildare, Co. Kildare (KD022-029020)

On the Sites and Monuments Record.

143 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification, and 17 An Coimisiún Pleanála cases touch it.

143
in the zone, 10 years
143
in the zone, all years
17
ACP cases in the zone
22
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 38.38 ha

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Planning applications in the zone of notification 143 applications in the last 10 years

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Appeals in the zone of notification 17 with An Coimisiún Pleanála

Building work started in the zone of notification 26 commencement notices

The record KD022-029020

SMR number
KD022-029020
Class
Round tower
Townland
Kildare, Co. Kildare
Named on the OS map
Round Tower
National record
National Monuments Service record for KD022-029020

In the NW sector of a graveyard (KD022-029003-), c. 30m NW of St. Brigid's Cathedral (KD022-029020-). According to Bradley et al. (1986 Vol 3, 222), the base and lower courses of the tower are built of evenly coursed granite blocks, with roughly coursed limestone blocks above (H. 32.6m; diam. 5.3m). There are seven floors; five supported on corbels, with the third and sixth on offsets. The red sandstone Romanesque doorway faces SE (H. above ground level 4.6m), and is of four orders (the outermost order is modern) with a gable above. The ornament includes chevrons, rosettes and foliation. There are narrow pointed splayed windows on the second, third, fourth and fifth floors, and five windows, each partially blocked at the base, on the top floor. Battlements were added in the 18th century. (Fitzgerald 1891-5, 76, 86-91; De Paor 1967, 137; Barrow 1979, 118-122) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 24 January 2012

Other records in the same zone

Buildings of Ireland (NIAH) within 100 m

  • 11817008 water pump · Regional rating · 27 m
  • 11817073 gates/railings/walls · Regional rating · 31 m
  • 11817010 house · Regional rating · 41 m
  • 11817009 The Cottage · Regional rating · 50 m
  • 11817007 Saint Brigid's Cathedral · National rating · 60 m
  • 11817021 house · Regional rating · 92 m

Source: National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record · fetched 27 Sept 2026

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