Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Curragh (Kildare ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (Kildare ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15924, -6.82943
- SMR number
- KD023-089----
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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
On level ground at the N end of a short, low N-S ridge. A second ringbarrow (KD023-091----) lies 46m away, at the S end of the same ridge. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A sub circular area (diams. 3.1m N-S; 2.2m E-W) is defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m), and by a low, outer, earthen bank (Wth 0.9-1.8m; int H 0.2-0.3m; ext H 0.1m) NNW-E-WSW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.