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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14122, -6.83984
- SMR number
- KD028-070----
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
At the E foot of a long, gentle slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD 1999). A very heavily poached oval area, used as sheep feeding station, (diams. 7.1m E-W; 4.8m N-S) is defined by low, broad, earthen bank (Wth 1.6m at S-3.5m at E; H 0.2m), which is heavily poached in the W sector.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.