Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 53.15550, -6.84708
- SMR number
- KD023-094----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Near the top of a low, N-facing slope which forms the S limits of a small E-W valley. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD, 1999). A small, low, circular, flat-topped earthen mound (basal diam. 6m; upper surface diam. 4m N-S; 3.6m E-W; H0.2-0.4m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.