Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
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
- 53.15427, -6.80535
- SMR number
- KD023-087----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Prominently sited on a knoll. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A small, low, grass-covered, sub circular, earthen mound (ext. diams. 11.7m N-S; 9.2m E-W; H 0.5 - 0.9m), the interior of which has been dug out to a depth of 0.3-0.6m (over an area of 2.7m N-S; 1.1m E-W). The edges of the mound have also been dug away intermittently along N and E..
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.