Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Mountrice, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrice
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17275, -7.02332
- SMR number
- KD021-005----
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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
When spoken to during archaeological fieldwork in 1984/5, the landowner recalled that during the erection of telegraph poles to the S of, and in the same field as, 'The Mount' (KD021-007----), a 'crouched burial' was uncovered. No further information was available. (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 20 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.