Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Newtown (rathmore Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (rathmore Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 53.21094, -6.60042
- SMR number
- KD019-040----
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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
On a low knoll in gently undulating pasture, with a long, gentle slope falling away to E and SE. A modern track runs from the main road to SW and passes SE and E of the site. A low, oval, grass-covered mound (H 1.4-1.7m; base diams. 21.2m NW-SE; 16.75m NE-SW; surface diams. 10m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) has a large, earthfast, rectangular block of limestone (dims. traceable L 1.5m; Wth 0.4m) at SE, which may be a displaced kerbstone. Thorn bushes grow on the side of the mound S-SW and the area upslope of them has been poached by livestock, revealing a clay composition in that part of the mound. Visible on a 2005 aerial photo (OSi Orthophoto)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.