Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Greenhills (newbridge Rural Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenhills (newbridge Rural Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14883, -6.75305
- SMR number
- KD023-032----
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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
In trees at the W edge of a short N-S ridge with a steep slope immediately to the W, and overlooking the River Liffey some 400m to the SW. A low, grass covered, circular mound (diam. 10m; H. 1.4m) was archaeologically excavated in advance of the proposed construction of the Kilcullen Link Motorway Scheme (Keeley 1991, 170-1). The stratigraphy consisted of layers of sod, sand and clay, with old ground surface visible as a band of greyish decayed sod and humic soil. Seven sherds of ceramic were recovered from a depression on the old ground surface: a well-fired red ware with traces of a green mottled glaze on the outer surface, medieval in date. A very similar looking mound (KD023-033----) lies c. 140m to the SE
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.