Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Clonard New, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonard New
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43814, -6.99694
- SMR number
- KD001-009----
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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
Depicted on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a substantial circular earthwork (est. diam. c. 50m) located in an orchard enclosed along the N, S and SW sides by an extensive range of buildings which have since been removed. Described by Wilde (1849) as 'a very perfect ancient tumulus'. On level improved pasture c. 350m S of the confluence of the N-flowing Glash River with the NE-flowing River Boyne. A fairly high, steep-sided, grass-covered, sub-circular, earthen mound (H 7m; diams. at base 38m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) rises to a narrow, level, sub-rectangular upper surface (dims. L 12m NE-SW; Wth 2.9m NW-SE). A low berm (Wth 2m; H 0.6m) girdles the base ESE-S. The sides of the mound are poached by livestock at NW and SE and reveal a composition of gravel and clay.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.