Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17074, -6.92587
- SMR number
- KD022-012----
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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 hilltop in improved pasture, with moderately steep slopes on all sides. Shown on the latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map as a raised circular area (est. diam. c. 25m) with a Trigonometrical station (OD 419 feet) on the NE sector, and a depression or possible quarry pit on the site limits NW-NE. The Trigonometrical station is no longer extant, and an ESB pole stands on or close to its former location. The depression has been infilled, and there is no visible surface trace of a mound.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.