What is recorded here

Barrow in County Kildare was a small earthen mound holding a standing stone when O’Conor wrote in 1839, but the stone had already fallen and the mound was later levelled. Walshe was told that breaking the mound opened ashes and clay Dutch pipes, hinting that the barrow marked a lived-and-forgotten place rather than a grand monument. What remains is absence made visible: a field where human hands built, destroyed and erased a boundary between the ordinary and the remembered.

According to O’Conor, jointly compiling the OSL in 1839 (Herity 2002, 198 (279-80)), ‘It [a standing stone: KD029-014001-] stood in a small earthen moat, but now lies on the ground, having been thrown down about 2 or 3 years ago.’ The 'moat', which may have been a barrow, was described by Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 358) as, ‘now levelled’. Walshe (1931, 137) was told that when the stone was thrown down, “ashes” and “Dutch pipes” of clay were discovered beneath its base. No visible surface trace of the ‘moat’ survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 September 2013

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