Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Kilrainy, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrainy
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40906, -7.01199
- SMR number
- KD003-026----
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4 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of Ballykane Hill (OD 398 feet). An archaeological excavation (Excavation Licence no. 04E1318) carried out in 2004 confirmed the site as a previously unrecorded ring-barrow, comprising a central mound surrounded by a ditch and an external bank, with an entrance to the southwest. The maximum external diameter of the site was 22m north-south. Finds included worked flints, copper-alloy fragments, unburnt and cremated animal bone and cremated human bone. (Lynch 2007, 202 (No. 843))
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.