Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 53.13933, -6.80420
- SMR number
- KD028-077----
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 knoll at the foot of an E-facing slope, overlooking a small, N-S valley to the E. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD 1999). A slightly raised, sub circular area (diams. 9.3m N-S; 6.7m E-W) is defined by a U-shaped fosse (Wth 1.8-2.6m; D 0.3.0.5m).
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.