Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Kellystown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellystown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38214, -6.42128
- SMR number
- DU013-018----
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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
Situated beside the railway line at Greenmount in the paddock are three conjoined circular features, comprising external bank (av. dims. Wth 2.5m; H 0.6m), internal fosse (av. dims. Wth 2m; D 0.25m) and raised interiors (av. ext. diams.11m). Test excavation (Licence no. 06E0348) was undertaken to determine the exact nature of three conjoined ringbarrows possible barrows. Testing on the east-west axis located a ditch along the interior of the bank of one of the three conjoined circular embanked features. Its presence strongly suggests that the feature is a type of barrow and, by inference, that the other two circular features belong to the same monument typology (Lynch 2006; https://excavations.ie/report/2006/Dublin/0015328/).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/01/2017 showing the conjoined barrows
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 19 January 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.