Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Castlewarden North, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlewarden North
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27185, -6.53394
- SMR number
- KD015-026----
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 just below summit of hilltop on rough grazing land in upland area. Outline of possible ring-barrow (approx. overall diam. 11m) consisting of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 7m) enclosed by a fosse that is visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Possible ring-barrow stands on the county boundary between Kildare and Dublin and the townland boundary between Castlewarden North and Castlewarden, Co. Dublin.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 24/06/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.