Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 53.17616, -6.87884
- SMR number
- KD022-080----
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
Mid way down a long, gentle N-facing slope, overlooked by two large ring-barrows (KD022-042---- and KD022-043----) and two small ditch barrows (KD022-081---- and KD022-082----) c. 100m to the S; a third possible ditch barrow (KD022-083----) lies c. 180m to SSW, a fourth (KD022-085----) c. 180m to SW and a fifth (KD022-086----) c. 160m to WSW. Visible on aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A very slightly raised circular area (diam 4.5m; H 0.2m) is defined by a narrow, shallow fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.1m) SE-SW (upslope) and elsewhere by a low scarp (H0.2m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.