Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Barberstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barberstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32221, -6.61123
- SMR number
- KD010-058----
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
One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey.
Date of upload: 12 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.