Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Alasty, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alasty
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27463, -6.60269
- SMR number
- KD014-050----
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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
Not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, but shown on the current (1939) ed. as a small circular mound (est. diam c. 20m), and visible as a cropmark on a 1971 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGM 74). On level, improved pasture, drained to the N by the small NW-flowing Painestown River. No longer visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.