What is recorded here

Barrow stands on the Redhills in County Kildare, a low ring of three banks and two ditches still clear enough to walk around. Thistles smother much of it now, and livestock have bitten into one bank, yet the shape remains: a small central chamber, repeated circles, and a view that runs everywhere except west, where higher ground cuts the horizon less than fifty metres away. Whoever built it did not hide it. They set a marker on open land, large enough to see from a distance and detailed enough to stop a person walking past.

Prominently sited on the Redhills, in mixed pasture and tillage, with panoramic aspect in all directions except to the W where higher ground rises less than 50m away from the monument. A low but well-defined, sub-circular, multivallate ringbarrow with three enclosing banks and two intervening fosses (ext. diams. 45.3m E-W; 41m N-S). A relatively small, sub-circular, central area (diams. 7m N-S; 6.5m E-W) is defined by a low, earthen, inner bank (int. H 0.2-0.3m; Wth 2.5m at N-5.1m at E; ext. H 0.3m), a shallow fosse (av. Wth 2m; D 0.2m), a middle bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 3m at S-6m at E) which has been seriously poached by livestock SW-W-NW, a second fosse (av. Wth 2m; D 0.3m), and by a third, outer bank (int. H 0.3m at N-1m at W; av. Wth 6.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m). The monument is virtually covered in thistles. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 December 2011

A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare and visible example of early funerary architecture in the landscape.

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