Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
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
- 53.17850, -6.89048
- SMR number
- KD022-072----
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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 level ground at the S. edge of a large, disused horse-exercising track. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A small, level, circular area (diam. 5m) is defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m). Denuded cultivation ridges abut the fosse at W and N. and a broad vegetation band (Wth 4-5m) of moss, heather and rushes defines the outer limits of the fosse NW-N-SE. This is one of a group of six similar, closely associated monuments (KD022-072---- to KD022-077----) in this part of the Little Curragh.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.