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Barrow - ring-barrow

Curragh (Ballysax East ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Curragh, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Curragh (Ballysax East ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.13445, -6.81399
SMR number
KD028-074----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low knoll at the S edge of The Curragh. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD 1999). Another ringbarrow (KD028-005----) lies on slightly higher ground c. 115m to the SW. A fairly well-preserved, circular area (diam 12.8m) is defined by a fosse (Wth 2.8-3.3m; D 0.2-0.8m) and a low, earthen, outer bank (Wth 3.4-4.8m; H 0.2-0.4m), which has been pushed into the fosse between SSW and NW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) and corresponding causeway (Wth 1.6m) at SSW.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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