Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Curragh (ballysax East Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (ballysax East Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15417, -6.80340
- SMR number
- KD023-085----
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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
At the S foot of a short but moderately steep, whin-covered slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A small, circular area (diam. 5.5m) is defined by a fairly broad, shallow, wet and heavily poached fosse (Wth 2.1-3.8m; D 0.2-0.3m) and a low, outer earthen bank (Wth 1.9-3.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. h 0.2-0.6m). The poaching in the fosse results from schooling horses there, and were it not for the presence of an outer bank, this site could be dismissed as a modern 'lunging ring'. It's possible, however, that an existing barrow was reused as a 'lunging ring'. A second, somewhat similar site (KD013-086----) lies 10m to the NE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.