Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Curragh (Ballysax East ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (Ballysax East ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Black Ditch
- Latest-edition OS map
- Black Ditch
- Coordinates
- 53.14977, -6.80922
- SMR number
- KD023-051----
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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
A low, earthen bank (H. 1.5m), flanked by a shallow fosse on its western side with intermittent traces of a second fosse on the eastern side, runs roughly N-S across the E-side of the Curragh (est. L c. 2400m): the N-half of its course runs NNW-SSE (est. L. c. 1250m), before changing direction slightly to run N-S (est. L. c. 1150m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.