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Barrow - ring-barrow

Brewel West, County Kildare, Ireland

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Townland
Brewel West
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.05798, -6.75093
SMR number
KD032-024----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture on a long gentle NE slope of Brewel Hill. A second ringbarrow (KD032-025----) lies c. 80m to the W, a third (KD032-022----) c. 220m to the N and a fourth (KD032-023----) c. 250m to the NW. A low circular area (diam. 14m) is enclosed by a shallow fosse (D 0.3-0.5m; Wth 3.5-4m), and by a low broad outer bank (int. H 0.3.0.5m; Wth 7.5m; ext H 0.1-0.3m) SE-W-NE, which is truncated by a road NE-SE.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 18 October 2013

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1976).

Nearby in the register

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

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