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Mound

Carrickanearla,Kilmoney South, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Carrickanearla, Kilmoney South, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrickanearla,Kilmoney South
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Chair of Kildare
Latest-edition OS map
Chair of Kildare
Coordinates
53.20173, -6.92332
SMR number
KD017-028001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Prominently sited on a narrow cliff-edged terrace on the SW slope of Grange Hill (OD 743 feet) and commanding a narrow pass between Grange Hill and Dunmurry Hill (OD 769 feet) to the SW. The monument is named for and associated in local tradition with the Earls of Kildare. A fairly well-preserved, though partly overgrown, high, steep-sided, flat-topped, circular, earthen mound (diam. at base 21m; diam at top 9m; H 2m at NE-5.5m at SE) carries a shallow, square depression (dims. L 4m; Wth 4m; D 0.6m) on the SW surface which may be the remains of a castle (KD017-028002-). A lower, sub-rectangular area (dims. L c. 28m NW-SE; Wth c. 26m) abuts the mound at SW and is defined by a low scarp (H 0.4-1m). It is terraced, with the slightly higher NE quarter, abutting the mound, retained by a low grassed-over stone wall (Wth 3.7m; H0.2-0.7m). A townland boundary wall runs NE-SW over the NW of the monument.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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