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Cursus

Brewel East Or Merville, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cursus, Brewel East Or Merville, 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 East Or Merville
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.05431, -6.74863
SMR number
KD032-058----

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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

Visible on a Google Earth image (21-04-2011) as the cropmarks of two parallel fosses defining a long linear area (pers. comm. I. Kenny, 21-08-2013). On freshly re-seeded ground, level at the SE end but rising gently towards the NW. A shallow linear hollow (D 0.3m; Wth 10m) while not particularly well-defined, is nonetheless traceable (est. L c. 130m NW-SE), and terminates in a curved end at NW. From the NW, looking SE along its line, the cursus appears to line up with Keadeen Mountain and Brusselstown Ring (WI027-018----) to the SE; notably there is a cursus monument on the slopes of Keadeen (WI027-089----).

Compiled by: Chris Corlett

Date of upload: 18 October 2013

References

Corlett, C. 2014 Some cursus monuments in South Leinster. Archaeology Ireland 28, (2), 20-25.

Nearby in the register

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

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