Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Celbridge Abbey (celbridge Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Celbridge Abbey (celbridge Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.32872, -6.55517
- SMR number
- KD011-066----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on flat poorly drained grassland with ditch barrow (KD011-067) approx. 50m to NNE. Depicted as a small grove of trees on first ed. OS 6-inch map and as a small circular enclosure on the revised ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Low circular-shaped rise of ground or low mound (approx. diam. 16m) defined by a shallow fosse (approx. Wth 2m).
See attached photograph of monument courtesy of Criddy & Meaghan O'Brien and black and white photo taken 05/10/2009 from Google Earth
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Criddy & Meaghan O'Brien
Date of upload: 07 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.