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Barrow - ring-barrow

Curragh (Kildare ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Curragh, 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
Curragh (Kildare ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.17282, -6.89751
SMR number
KD022-065005-

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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 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?) 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.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 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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