Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Pollardstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollardstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18021, -6.83879
- SMR number
- KD023-124----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
In level pasture in an area of extensive sand and gravel pits. Visible on a 2009 Google earth image as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (estimated diameter c. 18m), possibly a ringbarrow (pers. comm. D. Brennan, 30-03-2015).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 22-12-2015
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.