Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-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
- 53.12684, -6.92668
- SMR number
- KD027-044----
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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. A large, roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 48m) is defined by the remains of a shallow internal fosse (Wth 2.2-3.4m; D 0.4m) NW-NE, and by a low, broad, outer bank (Wth 4.5-6.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) NW-NE, which is reduced to a low scarp (H 0.2-0.6m) elsewhere. The fosse and bank terminate at a heavily poached area at NW which may be an entrance. The S interior and S limits are overgrown with whins and heavily poached by livestock. A possible pond-barrow (KD027-042----) lies c. 65m to the WNW and a possible ring-barrow (KD027-043----) lies c. 35m to the NW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 26 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.