Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Broadleas Commons, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broadleas Commons
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockshee Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockshee Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.11428, -6.60525
- SMR number
- KD029-025----
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 the S leading edge of an E-W pasture terrace. A poorly preserved, lightly overgrown, and now oval-shaped mound (base diams. 26m N-S; 17m E-W; summit diams. 10.9m N-S; 1.2m E-W: H 2.4m at W-3.6m at E) which has been quarried away N-E-S.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.