Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Curragh (ballysax East Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (ballysax East Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14207, -6.84964
- SMR number
- KD028-001----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A level circular area (diam. 19.1m) is enclosed by a well-defined, flat-bottomed fosse and by an outer earthen bank (overall diam. 29.5m). There is a possible causeway at the NE, and the monument is covered with gorse.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.