Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballymore Eustace West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Eustace West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12887, -6.62416
- SMR number
- KD029-058----
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 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this earthwork was located in a woodland plantation on the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge located 330m to NNE. Bullaun stone (KD029-010----) located 100m to S. Outline of circular-shaped sunken area (approx. diam. 10m) enclosed by a curving bank visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a pond-barrow or a designed landscape feature such as an ornamental pond associated with landscaping of the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke.
Date of upload: 16 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.