Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Broadleas Commons, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broadleas Commons
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pipers Stones
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pipers Stones
- Coordinates
- 53.11094, -6.61205
- SMR number
- KD029-023----
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 slightly raised (H 0.3m) platform-like area, on a low pasture rise. A circle (diams. 30m N-S; 31m E-W) of mostly granite boulders, now numbering 27, but originally probably 47/48 contiguous stones. The interior rises gently towards the W. (Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 353-4 – includes photograph; Walshe 1931, 130; Ó Nualláin 1975, 112). A second stone circle (KD029-032----), now destroyed, stood c. 830m to the SSW in Whiteleas townland.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 September 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 92/1940).
References
Ó Nualláin, S. 1975 The stone circle complex of Cork and Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 105, 83-131.
Walshe, P.T. 1931 The antiquities of the Dunlavin-Donard district. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 61, 113-41.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1899-1902(d) Ballymore Eustace and its neighbouring antiquities. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3, 357-9.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.