Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Curragh (ballysax East Ed),curragh (kildare Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (ballysax East Ed),curragh (kildare Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- The Curragh
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Curragh
- Coordinates
- 53.17554, -6.88610
- SMR number
- KD023-076----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Earthworks which comprises the Archaeological Complex of the Curragh which was a focus of burials in the prehistoric period. This zone was listed as an Archaeological Complex in the Record of Monuments and Places for Co. Kildare published in 1995. This record was listed to cover the archaeological landscape including all the monuments on The Curragh of Kildare. Every individual monument has been assigned an individual monument number.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 4 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.