Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Curragh (kildare Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (kildare Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17267, -6.89847
- SMR number
- KD022-065001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 very gentle, overgrown, SE-facing slope on the Kildare Golf Course, at the NW edge of the Little Curragh. A 1970 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDU 21) shows up to 12 small circular enclosures to the S and SE of a larger enclosure (KD022-040----). A second aerial photo. (undated and unattributed-GSI?) on file shows these features even more clearly. Described in 1989 as a group of at least 12 small ringbarrows, difficult to discern because of tree and furze stumps and poaching by sheep, but generally small circular areas (est. av. diams. c. 6-c.10m) defined by a very shallow fosse (D 0.05-0.10m) and low outer earthen bank (H0.10m) (SMR file). The area is now almost completely overgrown with whins and the monuments (designated KD022-065001- to KD022-065012-) are no longer clearly visible at ground level. Some of these possible barrows may in fact be lunging rings.
One definite ringbarrow (KD022-065001-) lies 10m S of an enclosure (KD022-040----). It is a poorly preserved, partially overgrown sub-circular area (diams. 6.6m N-S; 5.8m E-W) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 0.9-1.5m; D 0.1m) and a low outer earthen bank (Wth. 1.6m-1.7m; max. ext. diams. 13.3m N-S; c. 13m E-W).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.