Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Simonstown West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Simonstown West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97048, -6.80745
- SMR number
- KD038-056----
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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
'Prominently sited on a now conifer-forested hilltop c. 120m to NNE of a standing stone. Described as being 'In the Long Stone Field on Mr. Leonard's farm ... a small rath, much demolished on the south-east side; it has one encircling parapet, with the fosse, strange to say, inside, moat fashion.' (Fitzgerald 1906, 465). In 1955, it was described as having a fosse with a low, broad external bank (diam. c. 32m), (SMR file). The monument is no longer visible at ground level but was probably a ringbarrow.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.