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
- 53.17470, -6.87681
- SMR number
- KD022-088----
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 a narrow, level terrace at the E foot of a short, gentle slope. Two large ring barrows lie 70m to the NW (KD022-043----) and c. 170m to the W (KD022-042----); seven barrows (KD022-044----, KD022-080---- to KD022-083---- and KD022-085---- and KD022-086----) lie in an arc W-NNE, less than 250m away, while a second group of six barrows (KD022-087---- and KD023-077---- to KD023-081----) lie between 200m and 400m to the SE. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD 1999). A very slightly raised, sub circular area (diams. 9.3m N-S; 8.9m E-W; H 0.3m) is defined by a narrow, shallow fosse (Wth 0.6-1.0m; D 0.15m) WSW-SE, and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 0.5m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.