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
- 53.17535, -6.88136
- SMR number
- KD022-085----
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
On top of the low, broad ridge which forms the spine of the Little Curragh and which also carries three other possible ditch-barrows; (KD022-083----) c. 45m to the SE, (KD022-081---- and KD022-082----) c. 140m to the ESE, a large ring-barrow (KD022-042----) c. 110m to the SE and a second large ring-barrow (KD022-043----) c. 200m to the ESE. A fourth ditch-barrow (KD022-080----) lies c. 190m to NE. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A slightly raised circular area (diam. 7.4m) is defined by a very shallow fosse (Wth 1.4-1.7m; D 0.2m). A footpath track bisects the interior N-S. In the SE quadrant different vegetation growth forms a well defined a circular area (diam 1.8m) and six other examples of this occur immediately outside the monument E-S-W. Their origin, function and relationship with the barrow is unclear. (Similar circular features, but represented by very shallow depressions, occur at another ditch-barrow (KD022-074----) c. 685m to the NW.)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.