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
- 53.17896, -6.88969
- SMR number
- KD022-074----
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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 level ground at the S end of a low spur which projects N and which is defined along its NW and NE sides by two narrow, shallow wet 'gullies', near the centre of a large, disused horse-exercising track. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A small, slightly raised circular area (diams. 3.7m NNW-SSE; 3.1m NNE-SSW) is defined by a very shallow fosse (Wth 1.6m at WSW-3.4m at ENE; D 0.1-0.2m). Immediately outside, between W and N, lie five shallow, circular depressions (diams. 2.5-3.8m; D 0.1-0.2m) whose function and relationship to the main site is uncertain. (A similar pattern, though represented by different vegetation growth, occurs at a possible ditch barrow (KD022-085----) c. 685m to the SE.) A second, similar site (KD022-073----) lies 13m to the NNW. This is one of a group of six similar, closely associated monuments (KD022-072---- to KD022-077----) on 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.