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
- 53.17523, -6.87934
- SMR number
- KD022-082----
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
Near the top of a long, gentle N-facing slope and overlooked by two large ring-barrows (KD022-042---- and KD022-043----) c. 40m to the S and E. A second ditch barrow (KD022-081---- ) lies only 2.8m to the NE and a third (KD022-083----) lies c. 100m to the WSW; there is a fourth (KD022-085---- ) c. 140m to the WNW and a fifth (KD022-086----) lies c. 150m to the NW. Visible on aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A poorly preserved, very slightly raised, oval area (diams. c. 3m NE-SW; c. 7m NW-SE) is defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 2-2.5m; D 0.2m). Cultivation ridges, running N-S, abut the W limits of the monument and may be responsible for the creation of what looks like a low, outer bank (Wth. 2m; H 0.1m) SW-W-NW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-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.