Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Oldtown (Newbridge Rural ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (Newbridge Rural ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15987, -6.75123
- SMR number
- KD023-026----
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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
In 1955 while sand was being extracted, three burials were found some 7m apart on the summit of a ridge. They comprised a crouched inhumation accompanied by a bowl food vessel; a crouched inhumation accompanied by a bowl food vessel with some cremated bones; and an inhumation accompanied by a vase food vessel and vase urn (NMI 1955 (82)). In 1982, the area was found to have been completely quarried away (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 29 May 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.