Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Grangebeg (gilltown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangebeg (gilltown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08924, -6.66876
- SMR number
- KD029-049----
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 short low, NE-SW pasture ridge. A low circular earthen mound (diam. 7m; H 0.3m along E, 0.6m along W) is covered in thistles. No obvious trace of a fosse or outer bank.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 September 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 15/1956).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.