What is recorded here

Eight barrows cluster on a narrow esker in County Kildare, six joined inside a girdling enclosure while two lie slightly downslope to the south. Nettles choke the level pasture above them, and old scars from sand extraction bite into the northern and eastern edges. The dead may have chosen this ridgeline because it rose just enough to mark themselves against the flat world, or perhaps the living simply followed the shape the earth had already made.

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. KD019-001005- is the most southerly barrow in the group. A small circular area (diam 13.3m) is defined by a scarp (H1.9m), and an outer fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.8m) SE-SW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien with details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of revised upload: 29 November 2018

A Bronze Age barrow; part of a group associated with esker landscapes, significant for understanding early funerary practices and settlement patterns in the eastern midlands.

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