Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Narraghmore, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Narraghmore
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02968, -6.81145
- SMR number
- KD032-068----
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
The monument was recorded as Site A9 on an Environmental Impact Statement on the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown (pers. comm. N. Dunne 30-04-2015). It is described as a fairly prominent subcircular earthen mound (H 2m; diams. 20m; 18m) enclosed along the N by a possibly later fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m) which appears to truncate the N slope of the mound. Four mature beech trees stand on the mound. According to local tradition, the mound and surrounding fields contain the burials of rebels who died in the 1798 Rebellion.
In 2002, a geophysical survey in the vicinity revealed ditches apparently girdling and radiating from the mound.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 25 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.