Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - pond barrow
Kingsbog Or Common, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kingsbog Or Common
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12698, -6.92809
- SMR number
- KD027-042----
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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
In open level wet rough pasture. An oval, wet, pond-like area (int. diams. 23.3m NNW-SSE; 18m NNW-SSE) is defined by a low, very broad, denuded earthen bank (Wth 3.3 - 10m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.1 - 0.5m) densely overgrown with whins WNW-N. Two possible ring-barrows lie nearby; KD027-043---- c. 50m to the ENE and KD027-044---- c. 65m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 26 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.