Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Dunmurry West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmurry West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19855, -6.93205
- SMR number
- KD022-001003-
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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
Just off, to NE of, the summit of Dunmurry Hill (OD 769 feet) and 8m NE of a small enclosure (KD022-001002-), both of which are contained in a hillfort (KD022-001001-). A low (H 1.3m at S-1.9m at N), circular (base diam. 26.4m; surface diam. 8m), grassed over, stoney mound, possibly the remains of a cairn. Two possible hut sites (KD022-001004- and KD022-001005-) lie c. 30m downslope to the SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.