What is recorded here

Eight barrows cluster on a narrow esker in County Kildare, six locked inside a girdling enclosure while two sit slightly downslope in open pasture. Netles choke the upper surface, and scarred ground to the north and east marks earlier gravel extraction. The barrows remain unclassified, but their tight alignment and separate outliers suggest a lived boundary rather than a random scatter.

Eight barrows occupy the fairly level, nettle-covered, narrow upper surface of a short, N-S esker in level pasture, with evidence of previous extensive sand/gravel extraction immediately to the N and E. Six contiguous barrows (KD019-001001-, KD019-001002-, KD019-001003-, KD019-001006-, KD019-001008-, KD019-001009-) run N-S, in-line at the N end of the esker and are contained in an enclosure (KD019-001004-) which girdles the lower slopes of the esker, while a seventh and eight barrow (KD019-001005-, KD019-001007-, ) lies c. 48m slightly down slope, and outside the enclosure, to the S. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien with details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of upload: 29 November 2018

A Bronze Age barrow; part of a group associated with esker landscapes, significant for understanding early funerary practices and settlement in former extraction areas.

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