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Barrow - ring-barrow

Kilcock Upper, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Kilcock Upper, County Kerry, 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
Kilcock Upper
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52436, -9.55817
SMR number
KE005-101----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Situated in poorly drained scrubland 160m NNE of a ringfort (KE005-027----), and 20m S of the townland boundary with Kilcock Lower. Outline of ring-barrow (approx. overall diam. 16m) visible as a circular area of scrub on the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) 1995 Black & White aerial orthophotograph. On the OSI 2005 orthophotograph it is visible as a central circular-shaped mound enclosed by an inner fosse and outer bank. The monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.

See attached Google earth aerial photographs taken 16/03/2106 and 10/02/2009 showing outline of monument

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara & Ms Richa Marwaha

Date of upload: 19 February 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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