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Mound

Newtown (Rathmore ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Newtown, 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
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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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

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

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

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