Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Brewel West, County Kildare, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.