Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Oldkilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldkilcullen
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 53.10381, -6.76976
- SMR number
- KD028-048----
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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
On a hilltop, in pasture, with panoramic views in all directions. A low, sub-circular mound (H. 1m at W-1.5m at N and E; base diams. 10.5m E-W; 9.9m N-S; summit diam. 4.3m E-W; 3.3m N-S) is composed of earth and stone. An iron Trigonometrical Station, revetted by earthfast stones, is embedded on the surface, and the height (OD 594 feet) is recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The monument may have been a pre-existing mound modified for that purpose. Traces of a fosse and possible external bank are visible on Digital Globe aerial photography suggesting that this mound may be the remains of a bowl-barrow. This burial mound or barrow is annotated 'Moat' on Longfield's 1809 map of part of Oldkilcullen (NLI MS. 21 F. 34(28)). On this map it is depicted as a small mound standing immediately south of a road annotated 'Green Road called Drawwell Lane'.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan
Date of revised upload: 18 January 2019
References
NLI, MS 21 F. 34 / (28) National Library of Ireland, A map of several parcels of ground call'd the Bell lands of Kilcullen, in the County of Kildare part of the estate of the Prebendaries & Vicars of Christ Church Dublin let to [illegible]. Survey'd by J.L. 1809. Table of reference showing tenants names & area of holdings. Longfield Map Collection. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.