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Barrow - unclassified

Rathwalkin, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Rathwalkin, 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
Rathwalkin
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Rathwalkin
Coordinates
53.16621, -6.96003
SMR number
KD022-021----

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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 narrow terrace in a W-facing slope near the S-foot of the Red Hills (OD 197m). A very large and well-defined, oval earthen mound (H 1.9m at NE-3.5m at SW; base diams. 68m NW-SE; 58m NE-SW; upper surface diams. 17m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE) is girdled by a broad berm (total ext. diams. 129m NW-SE; 111m NE-SW). Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDO 41 (1970) and BGN 16 (1971)) show the cropmarks of both a wide external fosse and a narrow inner fosse. These features are no longer visible at ground level. Possibly an exceptionally large barrow like the one in Hallahoise (KD037-051----).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 06 December 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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