Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cursus
Brewel East Or Merville, County Kildare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.