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Stone circle

Broadleas Commons, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle, Broadleas Commons, 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
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----

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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 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

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

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