Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Walshestown (newbridge Rural Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown (newbridge Rural Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15990, -6.79817
- SMR number
- KD023-028----
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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
Listed in the SMR (1988) as 'Mound (possible)'. As it lay on the route of the proposed Newbridge by-pass motorway, archaeological excavation (Byrne and Keeley, 1987:29 www.excavations.ie) funded by Kildare County Council took place in July 1987. It was a modern, low, oval, earthen mound (H 1.5m; diams. 11.55m by 5m) composed of redeposited topsoil containing a large quantity of modern pottery, glass, clay pipes and some stoneware and iron objects. All the finds were in a very fragmentary and often abraded condition and were dispersed throughout the mound material. Similar finds were located in the buried soil beneath the mound. A single small sherd of unglazed medieval pottery was found in the buried subsoil but was not associated with any archaeological feature.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 6 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.