Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Burtown Big, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burtown Big
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99368, -6.87803
- SMR number
- KD035-041----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level tillage. Fitzgerald (1906-8, 293) was, ‘… sorry to report the partial levelling and ploughing over of a small Moat, or Pagan burial-mound, which stood in the same field as the old churchyard [KD035-030001-] at Birtown … .’ No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 23 December 2013
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1906-8c Notes – Destruction of the Birtown Moat. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 5, 293.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.