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Barrow - ring-barrow

Swordlestown North, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Swordlestown North, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Swordlestown North
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.18585, -6.64023
SMR number
KD024-008----

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David 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 a narrow roadside strip of woodland, in mixed pasture and tillage. A slightly raised (H 1m) circular area (diam. c. 25m) is enclosed by a shallow fosse (D 0.75m; Wth 2.5-3m) and a low outer, earthen bank (H 0.7m; Wth 3m). The bank has been reused both as a woodland boundary SE-SW-NW, and as a roadside boundary NE-E. (O’Riordáin 1950, 273)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 08 June 2012

References

Ó Ríordáin 1950, S.P. 1950 Excavation of some earthworks on the Curragh, Co. Kildare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 53 C 2, 249-77.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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