Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Forenaghts Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forenaghts Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22674, -6.59694
- SMR number
- KD019-023----
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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
Towards the N end of a narrow, moderately steep-sided pasture ridge on the landscaped grounds of Furness House. An earthen enclosure (KD019-022001-) containing a standing stone (KD019-022002-) and a cist burial (KD019-022003-) stands c. 65m to the N. Archaeological excavation in the early 1980's revealed that a low, grass-covered, circular mound (diams. 17.5m N-S; 17m E-W; max H 0.6m) delimited by a kerb of large stones, was composed of earth, stone and gravel, and had a central, oval-shaped stone core overlying a small central stake hole (charcoal dated GrN-1540 + 30BP). Several pits, and two deposits of cremated bone, one of which consisted of the remains of an adult were uncovered and finds included a portion of a blue glass bracelet, and a bronze ring (Grogan 1983-84, 298-315).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Rock art (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.