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Metalworking site

Dunmurraghill, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Dunmurraghill, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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