Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Barnaran, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnaran
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26187, -6.93768
- SMR number
- KD012-007----
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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
On the E edge of a large expanse of bog, and apparently giving access to/from Lullymore 'island', an area of high ground c. 1300m to the N. The monument was investigated by Rynne (1964-5, 35-7) on behalf of the NMI, who examined its S end where it ran parallel with and close to a modern tarred road. Rynne found a wide roadway (Wth 4.5m) constructed of marl and gravel at a depth of 0.55m below the surface of the bog, with a depth of peat of at least 1.85m below the roadway. Its course was marked by a line of coarse grass growing on the surface of the bog and could be traced for c. 300m. A second, similar roadway (KD012-004001-), lead N from Lullymore 'island', and two other toghers (KD012-002001- and 012-003001-) are known from the vicinity, to the N.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.