Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Dunmurraghill, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmurraghill
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33828, -6.76200
- SMR number
- KD009-012----
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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
In a gravel pit near the foot of a steep, N-facing pasture slope, which was formerly wooded (as shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map) and c. 100m ESE of a church (KD009-011001-), graveyard (KD009-011002-) and possible children's burial ground (KD009-011003-). A furnace bottom was discovered in collapsed gravel at the E-foot of the pit-face and, according to the landowner, many pieces of iron-slag were encountered during ploughing in the field immediately to the N. A row of stones three courses high, possibly part of a wall, was noted in the quarry face nearby, but is of uncertain significance, and not conclusively linked to this site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.