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Barrow - ditch barrow

Curragh (Kildare ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Curragh, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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