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
- 53.13445, -6.81399
- SMR number
- KD028-074----
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
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.