Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Raheen Old, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen Old
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34040, -6.66993
- SMR number
- KD010-015----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 open, level tillage. Visible on a 1967 aerial photograph (CUCAP ATC042) as the cropmark of three concentric fosses (est. max. diam. c. 30m), but not visible at ground level in 1985 (SMR file). Probably the site of a multivallate ringbarrow.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.