Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Barrettstown (Oldconnell ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrettstown (Oldconnell ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14859, -6.58185
- SMR number
- KD025-012----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Marked on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a Trigonometrical Station (OD 935 feet) and described in 1955 as a high, circular mound (H 2.5m; diam. 15.5m) with a small depression in the upper surface (SMR database). While it may well have been erected as a Trigonometrical Station, there is the possibility that a pre-existing hilltop mound may have been adapted to that purpose.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 24 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.