Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Curragh (kildare Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (kildare Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15609, -6.83161
- SMR number
- KD023-092----
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).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Near the top of a gentle S-facing slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A low but well-preserved, gently domed, circular mound (base diam. 13m; upper surface diams. 11.6m E-W; 7.8m N-S; H 0.4-0.8m) is girdled by a narrow berm (Wth 1.5-2m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.