Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Kilgowan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgowan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08573, -6.77081
- SMR number
- KD032-009----
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
In level tillage. The north-eastern of two possible ditch-barrows with second barrow (KD032-008----) 20m to SW visible on a 1969 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL090) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (approx. int. diam. c. 14m). Probably a ringbarrow or a ditch-barrow.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the two circular ditch barrows based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 19 February 2019
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.