Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Osberstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Osberstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23466, -6.69248
- SMR number
- KD019-013----
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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
A small, steep-sided mound is marked on a manuscript map (NLI Ms. 21 F 35 (1727-1838)), but is not recorded on the OS 6-inch mapping. On top of a long, gentle, NE-facing, pasture slope. No obvious visible surface trace of an artificial mound survives.
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.