Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Watergrange, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Watergrange
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17942, -6.95074
- SMR number
- KD022-009----
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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
Prominently sited on the Redhills, in mixed pasture and tillage, with panoramic aspect in all directions except to the W where higher ground rises less than 50m away from the monument. A low but well-defined, sub-circular, multivallate ringbarrow with three enclosing banks and two intervening fosses (ext. diams. 45.3m E-W; 41m N-S). A relatively small, sub-circular, central area (diams. 7m N-S; 6.5m E-W) is defined by a low, earthen, inner bank (int. H 0.2-0.3m; Wth 2.5m at N-5.1m at E; ext. H 0.3m), a shallow fosse (av. Wth 2m; D 0.2m), a middle bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 3m at S-6m at E) which has been seriously poached by livestock SW-W-NW, a second fosse (av. Wth 2m; D 0.3m), and by a third, outer bank (int. H 0.3m at N-1m at W; av. Wth 6.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m). The monument is virtually covered in thistles.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 05 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.