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Barrow - ring-barrow

Brewel West, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Brewel West, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brewel West
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.05790, -6.75229
SMR number
KD032-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on the long gentle NE slope of Brewel Hill. A second ringbarrow (KD032-024----) lies c. 80m to the E, a third (KD032-023----) c. 230m to the N and a fourth (KD032-022----) c. 250m to the NE. A fairly well-preserved, though overgrown, circular area (diam. 21.5m) is enclosed by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth. 2.2m; D below interior 1.6m; D below outer bank 1.6-2.1m) and a broad outer bank (Wth 9-12.5m; ext. H 1.1m; ext diam. of monument 55m).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 21 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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